The Power of Spiritual Gravitas—Live with Student Influencers

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Certain people have a gravitas to their lives, a weightiness that you notice whenever you are around them. This isn’t an inborn trait, it’s a muscle that can be developed—if you’re willing to make decisions that go against cultural norms. In this talk, recorded on an iPhone in a room full of high school leaders, Brian unpacks this idea, the importance of youth, and why it’s never too early (or late) to develop gravitas.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the aggressive life, Gravitas. What is spiritual gravitas? It's a thing. It's important thing. You want it. You know it when you've been around it. I got to talk to a bunch of high schoolers about this. And this talk applies to everybody all ages. The wave always starts
0:41.8	in the student section, period. It's critical. Earlier this year, I was asked to speak at a
0:48.2	gathering of student influencers, teenagers who are integral to running the student ministries and
0:53.1	reaching their peers across all of
0:55.2	our crossroad sites. And despite the fact that my calendar was crammed full, I made it a point
1:01.8	to get out there and spend time with them because that's how important students are. They're not
1:07.2	just the church of tomorrow, the church of today.
1:16.0	All of Jesus' disciples were 18 and under other than Peter.
1:18.1	I don't know if you knew that or not.
1:19.3	Just Peter was.
1:22.6	We know it because one of the miracles of Christ, do I talk about this and this talk?
1:24.3	I think you do.
1:26.2	Yeah, we'll just save it for the talk.
1:29.5	I'll just save it for the talk. Good. Let's just stop right there. Thanks,
1:35.4	we'll stop right there. And if I don't talk about the talk, you can, you can ask a Q&A and I'll tell you about it later.
1:44.4	Anyway, enough talking about what I talked about, dirt. Let's get to the talk. Let's go and talk about the power of developing spiritual gravitas, which is a critical thing for all of us.
1:47.6	It's recorded on an iPhone.
1:50.0	Dirt wasn't there.
1:51.1	I just took my iPhone and said,
1:52.3	oh, this might be good to use.
1:53.5	So I'll record it on the iPhone.
1:54.8	The sound quality isn't amazing.
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