Deeper Life Con­fer­ence Re­cap

MISHAWAKA—This past week was the Deeper Life Con­fer­ence at Bethel Col­lege. This year Bethel hosted Johnathan Miller, of­ten­times re­ferred to as YPJ. The Deeper Life Con­fer­ence lasted Mon­day through Wednes­day with ex­tra chapel times of­fered on Mon­day evening and Tues­day af­ter­noon and evening.

YPJ brought Bethel’s cam­pus the chapel talks that we needed. His en­thu­si­asm and hard-hit­ting truths in­spired many peo­ple to ap­proach the al­tar on all three days of the con­fer­ence.

The most mov­ing talk that YPJ de­liv­ered to cam­pus was on Wednes­day morn­ing. The mes­sage was that we (young peo­ple) are go­ing to be the ones to change the world. We don’t have to wait un­til we grow up to start chang­ing the world, in­stead we can start right now.

YPJ called up every­one who felt called to change the world. Whether it was some­thing as small as lov­ing a neigh­bor or dras­tic as chang­ing the way that every­one thinks.

Over­all, the cam­pus re­sponded re­ally well to his teach­ings. I over­heard many peo­ple talk­ing about how good he was and how they ap­pre­ci­ated his teach­ings.

One stu­dent said, “I re­ally ap­pre­ci­ated his en­thu­si­asm. It made his mes­sage seem more gen­uine, like he cared about what he was say­ing.”