Abstract
When existential needs that enhance Africans’ total well-being are unmet, they can instigate some Africans to rely on diabolical powers and thus betray the thought that Christ is sufficient for them. More often than not, some African Christians, due to a mind-set that spiritualises everything, seek to meet such existential needs through spiritual approaches: prayers, deliverance, fasting, and giving. This study, by exploring the biblical teaching about imago Dei, a truth that distinguishes human beings from the rest of the creation, argues that human beings are God’s channels for meeting their own existential needs so they need not insist on seeking spiritual solutions to problems they can solve through their God-given skills and abilities. This entails a theological-practical engagement of existing relevant literature to establish how humans, as creatures in imago Dei, can demonstrate Christ as sufficient for Africans who think otherwise. This study engages the biblical teachings on imago Dei as it relates to Christ’s sufficiency and humans’ responsibility, as God’s vicegerents, in meeting one another’s existential needs. This study applies its findings to three major aspects of human life, namely: vocation, dignity and rights, and disability. This study is expected to inspire African Christians to understand that they have a role to play, alongside other non-Christians, and to portray Christ’s sufficiency to meet Africans’ existential needs.