Adventist mindset: A panacea for peaceful neighborliness in the economically challenging world of the 21st century

Abstract

The 21st Century in which we live is presenting series of economic challenges in the lives of individuals, families, organizations and nations. These situations are results of natural and artificial disasters befalling the world, which day by day create fear as well as restlessness in the minds of people and nations. In spite of these challenges, the Adventist mindset, which is rooted in belief in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, avails those who imbibe it a sense of satisfaction with an inner peace that promotes good and peaceful neighborliness in the society. This is an outcome of the understanding that unemployment, economic hardship, crime and moral lapses have their way only here and now, while the desired blissful life of complete satisfaction for the human being would only become possible when Jesus Christ comes and takes his true believers to heaven. Therefore, it is the position of this paper that the peace which Adventism possesses and bequeaths to the world is founded on hope and faith in the promises of Jesus Christ enshrined in the Bible. This type of peace is not enforced upon mankind rather it is imputed and imparted providentially to those who desire it sincerely.