ROB GUSS

Role - CONTINGENT Campus Staff

Hometown - Rosemary Beach, FL

My first time going to church was before I even took my first breath—my mother carried me through its doors while I was still in the womb. For the next 18 years of my life, my “Christian” life was nothing more than a routine, a series of boxes I checked off rather than a loving devotion I embraced. I was immersed in a faith I had never truly made my own, and I eventually realized that I was trying to live a Christian life without Christ Himself. It was an empty pursuit, a life I spent clinging to a title and nothing else, completely devoid of the One it revolves around. Then, in my final semester of high school, something changed. Perhaps for the first time, I opened my Bible outside of a Sunday service—not out of obligation, but out of a deep conviction I couldn't quite explain. At that moment, the words leaped off the page. God’s Word was no longer ink on paper; it was alive, piercing through my indifference and awakening me. Then, I truly surrendered, placing my faith in Christ—not as some principle, but as the Savior who had been pursuing me all along. Now, my greatest passion is to help others encounter the same life-altering power of the gospel, to lead them beyond mere Christianity to the foot of the cross.