Spent about 5 hours last night with these seniors @TheKingsCollege. They are totally different men than they were 4 years ago. The character change was nothing less than miraculous. They received a great education but they are also going to be outstanding husbands & fathers! 
And it’s not age. They’ve read 100s of pages of what it means to be an aggressively virtuous, confident man & we’ve logged 100s of hours of hard conversations. Lots of laughter, tears. They wanted to be better men. 99% of college guys are sent to school to simply make more money.
The guys at King’s want to be better men. Anyone can make money but being a virtuous man seeking what’s best for others, looking forward to offering himself to his wife & children, for their good, is not on the radar most college guys. These guys *wanted* extraordinary character.
These two humbly confident college athletes know who they are and will be a serious threat against the forces of evil. Theologically sound, warrior-poets. Toughened by struggle, friendship, accountability, & wisdom. It’s been a joy to watch them embrace vulnerability & change.
Watching these athletes embrace a masculinity centered on other people’s good doesn’t happen by completing college online. It doesn’t happen by attending a school that doesn’t care about men’s moral formation. This is why sending students to colleges like King’s is worth it.
It doesn’t happen by just being in a college ministry. It’s forged in the classroom & reinforced by student life, etc. College ministry can’t do 14 weeks, 3-hour weekly discussions, approximately 1800 pages of reading, 56 pages of written reflections on their futures as men.
Their college experience was character shaping in ways that are truly going to make the world better. Having a clear strategy in mind for being men of virtue in life & at work, love-focussed husbands, & life-giving fathers is what the world needs. These athletes went all in!
The frat boy graduating from State College X is not likely graduating laser-focussed on these virtues. Yes, he may have a great job but is he a great person? And I don’t mean “not bad.” But leaving college committed to harnessing his power for the good of others, sacrificially.
Really proud of these “jocks!” I want to be more like them when I grow up.😂 C.S. Lewis would have had diner with us last night and concluded, “These two students are definitely men with chests!”
So when one of these guys asked his girlfriend *the* question, it’s no surprise that she said, “Yes!” Don’t just “go to college” come to King’s!
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