Who (or what) has shaped your faith the most?”
As a campus minister, I have asked this question to many college students over the years. Lately, I have noticed a shift in their answers.
Last fall, I sat across from a freshman at Vanderbilt University. We were chatting over tacos when I posed the question. I watched the gears spin in his head. Would it be a church from back home? A great book? An older mentor who discipled him? Maybe his parents?
He leaned back.
“YouTube.”
I stared blankly, trying my best not to show my surprise.
It hit me: What we were doing—eating lunch alongside one another—discipler and disciplee—might be an entirely new experience for him. In the digital age, disembodied social interactions have become the norm.