My time with InterVarsity has been cause for a consistent, slow, and rather difficult change of attitude. The main factor is that I am often around fellow brothers and sisters in Christ; this particularly motivates me to behave and act in certain ways that I otherwise would not. Prior to becoming a part of InterVarsity, I did not surround myself with godly folk, at least not in the most obvious ways one would imagine. While ultimately it has been a good thing to be held accountable to other people, it certainly hasn't been easy. It's been quite the 180 for me: going from hateful to loving, intolerant to patient, prideful to humble, etc. And certainly I have succeeded in some areas better than other, as I think I will continue to do so until I die.
Mostly InterVarsity has provided me with an actual community of Christians who want to be godly. Often times the Christians I met who were my age, prior to InterVarsity, were just faux Christians--people who said they believed but never really thought about how those beliefs should show themselves in their social and political lives. They were incredibly lazy, even more so than I. InterVarsity has more or less been a force against me to not be lazy like them. I have still a ways to go before I can offer a true story of my time with InterVarsity, but such as it is, this is what my time has been like.
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