You Become Your Community (with Stanford Gibson and Peter Nittler)

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You become the product of the communities in which you embed yourself. You become your communities– Stanford Gibson

If there was a list in some Google Doc somewhere of all the ideas that makes us excited to do College Life – this would be in the top 5, and it wouldn’t be number 5. In fact, we love this idea so much both for what it tells us about human beings, but also (as you’ll hear in this episode) what it tells us about worship, that we don’t really remember what it was like to hear it for the first time. So, we don’t know if this idea strikes you as good news, bad news, if you’re skeptical of its truthfulness, or somehow, strangely, all 3? But it animates much of what we do and think as a ministry – which is why we’re talking about it. Peter Nittler and Stanford Gibson talk about the general premise, what it means for college students, what implications it has for who and what we worship, and how it leads to College Life’s cultural focus on both deep formation and deep fun. Plus, we give you an insight into Freshman-Peter and Freshman-Stanford. We can’t wait to be back in your earbuds. Oh! And welcome to Davis to all our new friends!

Book Recommendations:

You are What You Love, James K.A. Smith

YouTube Recommendations

This is Water: Kenyon College Commencement Address, David Foster Wallace

This episode was edited by Heidi Roodvoets