Cultural Intelligence
I am listening to a lecture series on cultural intelligence by Professor David Livermore.
He is teaching on the importance of cultural intelligence when working in a cross cultural setting. One example he gives is when he questioned three Christian ministers from different cultures why the prodigal son was eating with the swines.
The eastern European minister said it was because there was famine.
The African minister said it was because no one would give him food.
The American minster said it was because the prodigal son squandered his inheritance.
Who was correct???
Immediately, I thought like an American, because he sqandered his inheritance. But really all three are correct, it is just the lens from which they read the bible.
Luke 15
11 Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons. 12 The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them.
13 “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. 14 After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. 15 So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. 16 He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.
He is teaching on the importance of cultural intelligence when working in a cross cultural setting. One example he gives is when he questioned three Christian ministers from different cultures why the prodigal son was eating with the swines.
The eastern European minister said it was because there was famine.
The African minister said it was because no one would give him food.
The American minster said it was because the prodigal son squandered his inheritance.
Who was correct???
Immediately, I thought like an American, because he sqandered his inheritance. But really all three are correct, it is just the lens from which they read the bible.
Luke 15
11 Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons. 12 The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them.
13 “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. 14 After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. 15 So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. 16 He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.
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