Abstract
In South Africa (SA), we live in a sick society with drugs, alcohol abuse, rape, murder, shootings, theft, hijackings, gambling, pornography and so many more evils. What is wrong in SA? The author of this article argues that our problems in SA are a result of God, religion and religious scriptures being marginalised in society – a growing absence of spiritual intelligence. A lack of spiritual intelligence contributes to people’s abuse of power. This power abuse can be prevented once human race has been made aware of a supernatural power. This awareness, known as spiritual intelligence, thus seems to be an answer to our country’s problems. The author shows how the idea of spiritual intelligence has emerged into a modern debate and how the importance of spiritual intelligence has become known and debated among academics, psychologists, educators and business people. This article suggests that Christianity should take part in this debate and play a role in developing spiritual intelligence, in making human race aware of the supernatural power of the Christian God, in providing moral behaviour that can benefit the world by bringing religion back to society to prevent power abuse and to heal an out-of-control world.
Highlights
In South Africa (SA), we live in a well-developed, modern society
Make no mistake: we live in a sick world! You need only open a newspaper, turn on your radio or television or log onto social media and you will see to what extent our society is permeated by corruption, violence, drug and alcohol abuse, theft, shootings, hijackings, pornography, murder, rape and child abuse
Spiritual intelligence is what we need in our South African community
Summary
In South Africa (SA), we live in a well-developed, modern society. We have more knowledge than our forefathers had, more life experience and, most importantly, we have ever-developing science and technology that has made our lives easier, more convenient and more enjoyable. The realisation that there is a higher power in this world will help people to meet the higher power, but it has the potential to let these people find ground for morality and ethics, as we persuade them that human beings have a responsibility to follow God’s rules and guidelines for life At this point, Christianity can once again prove why our God is different. Intelligent people may be those who know how to address their problems, how to handle conflict, how to behave in relationships, how to relate to the government, how to act as employers or employees, how to make a marriage work, how to treat their children, how to handle differences and how to work through losses and suffering and depression (see Singh & Sinha 2013) These teachings, must be available on the streets, in companies, in schools and in government – evangelisation needs to relive in SA. Christianity should guide people to the different Christian communities and organisations – those designed to help the youth, those helping the needy, those focusing on the family, those helping drug addicts or alcoholics or people with depression or those supporting the elderly
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