So continuing from DT week, after getting back, getting dry, sleeping in an actual bed and having the best breakfast cooked by our UK director, Mike, we were starting to recover slightly.
After this week we continued into our second part of Cultural Studies learning more about just how different people from different cultures really are and how much it can be a problem if you don't try to understand the culture of people you're working with, a culture you're going to or the culture you're in. I realised this is highly important, not just in mission work where clearly there would be a culture change but just in church in general as the cultural diversity is growing all the time, if this isn't understood or attempted to be understood at least then this can have massive knock on effect on relationships due to misinterpretation usually.
The week after this we hit the week of spiritual warfare. This topic I hadn't learnt much about previously, so I was very eager to learn. I learnt so many things during this week and mentally it was one of the weeks that will a lot more full on but as a Christian was definitely one of the teaching topics I value most.
We looked worked through looking at who the enemy is and then, more importantly, how we can protect and attack the enemy and how important it is to literally apply the armour of God. I'd gone through what it was before but never thought of the use of it or how it was important to me at all but over these past few weeks I've learned such things as truthfulness. righteousness, peacefulness, faith and the word of God (Bible) are among the most important things that I need in my day to day life and will keep me strong and firm in my faith. Making sure I use the armour will enable me to do more, be more and fully step into what God plans are for me.
Finally we talked about prayer and how important that is in day to day life. Before coming on this gap year prayer had strangely enough never really been a massive part of my life and I hadn't truly valued its power to change situations. I never understood why we had to pray and why didn't God just change our situations anyways. I've never realised so much how prayer can change seemingly unchangeable situations until these last few months and how essential it is as part of daily life.
I loved this week of teaching and I could go into a mass amount of detail about every area we got taught on... if you really would like me to go more in detail on this topic you can ask me personally and I'll be very happy to pass on everything I've been taught...however for now I will just say I've learnt that the specific armour of God was taught to us so we would know what we would need and how to use it, not so we could completely disregard it as just words that have no life or meaning.
Every part of God's word was written for a reason and we should remember this at all times.
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