Moral Quotient: Trumps IQ and EQ

The Holy Spirit (Giaquinto, c. 1750s)

Loys de Fleuriot, author of MQ: Moral Quotient, is described on the moralquotient.com website as “one of the forerunners of the Apostolic Prophetic mode in Canada.”

Wikipedia links the Apostolic Prophetic Movement to “the Five-Fold Ministry described in the New Testament book of Ephesians,” which includes apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers.  It is a movement that is rooted in Charismatic/Pentecostal Christianity (which emphasizes direct personal experience with God that is rooted in the Holy Spirit) - and is considered Primitivist because “it defers more to the authority of original documents and doctrines than to later developments and elaborations transmitted by the authorities of the Catholic and Orthodox churches.”

Loys and his wife, Sharon, immigrated from South Africa to Canada in 1997.  They then planted Freeway Church in Toronto, which focuses upon “friendship before function.”  According to the church website, Jesus Christ is more important than either meetings or methods.  The only “law” is the “law of love.”  Although Scripture serves as a “bedrock” of values, it cannot be fulfilled “outside of an intimate and Holy Spirit quickened relationship with Jesus.”

In his Moral Quotient/Morality Heals video, Loys explains that on the one hand there is religion and its commandments, and on the other hand there is recklessness and licentiousness.  However, there is also True Morality, which stems from God and manifests in heartful and healing relationships. 

Although secular humanists tend to think that all morality comes from inborn social reflexes, Loys states that IQ and EQ alone cannot produce that which is worthy of passing along to future generations.  He stresses honesty over hypocrisy – and points out that Jesus criticized hypocrites far more than sinners.  Loys says that we need to take honest stock of ourselves in order to realize what the fallacy of not needing God in our lives has produced.

Resources

http://www.moralquotient.com/Author.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic-Prophetic_Movement

http://moralquotient.com/downloads/SampleChapter.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQTmXC8WJqs

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