Josua

The Urban Cultures discipleship training school permitted me to live an experience over 8 months that now constitues a new foundation in my understanding of who God is and of the love that He has for each one of us. Before this school, I thought that a school with Youth With A Mission would essentially permit me to live some powerful and uncommon things with God. Finally, I let myself be surprised by the content of the teaching and of the proposed activities, and by the richness and depth of various meetings, in order to become more aware of God’s unconditional love. This school encourages us to be incarnate in our post-christian culture. What does it mean to be God’s image and to reflect Jesus in our contemporary world ? These 8 months spent in Montreal with Youth With A Mision give you the opportunity to answer these questions. Jesus tells us : « A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.» (John 13 : 34-35)

This school really helps you to learn how to love others. The definition that Jesus gives concerning what it is to be his disciple is simple : someone who loves others. This discipleship training school fully meets what should be its first objective : to teach its’ students to accept and to love others regardless of their origin, their culture, their religion, their past, their dependencies, their choices . . .

I learned how to take God out of the box that I had the tendency to keep him in. It’s easy to limit God to the only vision we have of Him. Our culture, our family, our education, our church each unconsciously fashion for us a mold in which we like to put God. We can quickly forget that God is the the Creator of everything on this Earth, and that He loves diversity. I understood during these 8 months that there are so many ways to worship Him and to speak with Him. I learned that none is better than the others. We easily believe that we have the truth. In our humanity, God found the best way for us to better know Him. He became a man through His Son Jesus. To refuse to recognize Jesus is to refuse to recognize God in the most honest and true way that is possible. The truth is a person, and this person is called Jesus.