Liberty University’s Campus Community asks students, “What Would Jesus Do?”
Fall 2026 series uses worship, messages and a throwback theme to encourage students to consider how Jesus should influence their decisions.
Every Wednesday night at Liberty University, students gather in the Vines Center for Campus Community.
Campus Community is an optional event for students as a place for worship and listening to a message. Despite this event not being required, the Vines Center is filled with students every week.
For the fall of 2026, Liberty’s Office of Spiritual Development has created the series titled, “What Would Jesus Do?” The series focuses on statements about Jesus, Jesus’s actions and calls for Christians to reconsider their decision-making.
The phrase, what would Jesus do, gained popularity towards the end of the 20th century with Christians wearing bracelets with WWJD on them as a reminder. Because the Campus Community theme is based on that phrase, students were given those bracelets during the first official Campus Community along with notebooks covered in vibrant 1990s-era colors.
Along with the theming with the visuals and messages, the Liberty Worship Collective will be performing and recording one throwback Christian worship song each week. By the end of the semester, the recordings will be put together and released as a full album.
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The Worship Collective creates a setlist that gives the students a space to have a moment with the Lord before and after listening to the message.
“I would say the worship because it makes me feel closer to heaven,” said sophomore Avery Bowen.
Throughout the semester different faculty and staff members will teach a message on the foundational aspects of Christianity including peace, service, mission, love, faithfulness and gratitude. The messages will look at different parts of Jesus’ life in the different gospels and consider how Jesus behaved.
Speakers will include Jonathan Falwell, Dondi Costin, Josh Rutledge, David Wheeler, Kevin Huguley, Wes Franklin, Tommy Schrock and David Platt.
“I would say my favorite part about Camp Com is just being able to hear from different perspectives from pastors, hearing from Josh, hearing from Dondi and just being able to learn more from the Lord and being able to pour out onto the campus,” said graduate student Emily Hope.
Week four was titled: Jesus was a good friend. Vice President of Spiritual Development Josh Rutledge wanted to deliver a message to students to give them a definition for community.
Rutledge posed questions that allowed students to evaluate who is affecting them, who is beside them, and who they are affecting. All of these questions make the students think about the people they have in their lives that are the foundation of community.
Many of the topics that are discussed during Campus Community are the foundations of the faith. Because every semester there are around 4,000 new residential students on campus, the messages that are chosen are meant to bring all of the students on the same page doctrinally so that they can best thrive at Liberty.
At the beginning of the semester, the students got excited for the Campus Community series with the Kickoff on the Lawn. During the event, the theme of the series was announced and the Worship Collective led the students in a night of worship.
