Tim Tebow exposes how shallow Christianity has become

In case
you have not noticed, sleeve-wearing Christian Tim Tebow has been causing
quite a stir across the football world with his unashamed living out of the
Gospel. His I-love-Jesus-more-than-anything approach to life has
proved to be quite unsettling to those who are uncomfortable with his bold
proclamation of Romans 1:16.

“For
I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the
power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first,
and also to the Greek.”

In my
lifetime I cannot name a single public figure, apart from those who make a
living off of the Gospel, who has been as bold of a witness as Number 15 for
the Denver Broncos.

He is
not the only Christian in the NFL. The past two Super Bowl Champions had
Christians under center, Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints, Aaron Rodgers
of the Packers, yet one would have to dig to find stories of their witness
to their Faith.

Former
Super Bowl QB Kurt Warner of the St. Louis Rams claims Christ, yet he
recently advised Tebow that he would be better off if he removed Jesus from
his sleeve…or at least put a sweatshirt over the top of his arms.

“But
I’d tell him, ‘Put down the boldness in regards to the words, and keep
living the way you’re living. Let your teammates do the talking for you. Let
them cheer on your testimony.’
Kurt Warner

Yeah
right Kurt. Hide that light under a bushel. That
I’ll-show-them-Christ-by-the-way-I-live approach hasn’t gotten us very far
in spreading the Gospel. America is a vast moral wasteland because we have
hidden the light.

In this
country we no longer “crown the good.” Because of our silence our culture
has evolved to the point where we “crown the bad.” Tim Tebow is bad. Lady
Gaga is good. Tim Tebow won’t be at the Super Bowl,
but Madonna will.

In the
NFL the Material Girl trumps the Spiritual Guy. (I wonder if Kurt Warner
would ask Madonna to tone it down a bit.) It seems to me that the wrong
folks are ashamed.

“The
wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.”
Proverbs 28:1

Bold Christianity would make Madonna run to the locker
room.

Tim
Tebow is a mirror. He exposes how shallow most of our Christianity is.
That’s what makes us so uncomfortable…“I am a Christian, but I am not as
fanatical about it as Tebow is.”

No
kidding. I wonder which one is more like Jesus…you or Tim Tebow? Would Jesus
tell Tim to “tone it down?” Would Jesus tell you to?

No. He
doesn’t have to. You already have toned it down yourself. That’s why
Christianity is so under assault in the culture. We are ashamed of the
Gospel. We are ashamed to speak up for what is right.

We have
allowed them to put a crown on the head of the evil. We have failed to
understand that nature loves a vacuum. The removal of the Christian standard
of morality from our culture has opened the floodgates to secular
debauchery.

Silence
isn’t golden…it is yellow. Our Christian-laryngitis has resulted in no
prayer in schools, no Ten Commandments, sodomite-“marriage,” legalized
baby-murder, Christ-less Christmas…

I wonder
if any of the heathen have asked Lady Gaga to tone it down? Have they
impugned her for her vicious assault on the morality of America’s children?

It is
one thing when the God-haters want Tim to tone it done. It is quite another
when those on his own team are knocking the ball out of his hands.

Even in
the church we no longer “crown the good.” Humanism has forced its way into
the void, and the Gospel has been relegated to a self-help, best-life-now,
felt-needs formula for success in life.

Tim
Tebow crushes that paradigm like a blitzing line-backer.

Jesus IS
life. Tim Tebow has his arms around something bigger than the NFL!

In this
age of self-centered
narcissism Tebow carries a different message. The answer to America’s
problems is not government. The problems in America are Spiritual. Turn to
Jesus and not to politics.

We must
return to an America where good is crowned.

But that
is not the message of the world. They want an America where everyone is on
the same level. Homosexual marriage is as valid as heterosexual marriage;
Humans are on the same level as the baby seals; Abortion is on the same
level as appendicitis; Dr Phil is as wise as the Apostle Paul; Christianity
is on par with Islam, Buddhism, and Taoism; Sinners are no different than
saints; Jesus and Mohammed share the same throne.

No
standards…no judge…no right and wrong…no good and evil. America is ravaged
with the gospel according to Rodney King, “Why can’t we all just get
along?”

No
wonder we crown the bad.

But
there is hope. Tim Tebow has revealed something about us. For those who have
eyes to see, God has used him to reveal a hunger for righteousness in the
hearts of Americans.

In spite
of the fact that his bold-Christianity has been pillaged by those on the
right as well as those on the left, Tim Tebow has touched a nerve in the
soul of America, and no matter how hard they may try, the secularists cannot
not gauze over the blood seeping out of a heart that is yearning for
something to believe in.

That’s
Tim’s message, you know. Believe, not in yourself or your abilities, but in
the ONE who makes all things possible.

Tim
Tebow has torn off the scab and exposed the spiritual-malignancy sweeping
over this land.

The
media is telling him to tone it down…other Christians are telling him to
tone it down…but Mom and Pop America is telling him to turn up the volume.

Did you
know that the Bronco’s playoff game against the Patriots was
the most watched non-Super Bowl football game in history?

Did you
know that Tim Tebow was recently voted
the most popular athlete in sports-obsessed America?

How can
that be?

Because
in their hearts, most American parents wish their son had turned out like
Tim Tebow, and they long for their daughter to marry a man like him. They
have had enough of the Lindsay Lohans, the Charlie Sheens, and the decadence
of America’s pop culture icons.

The
dirty little secret is that fly-over country wants a return to a crowning of
the good.

Look at
this picture of
Tebow and his mom. The culture crowns the playboys, while America is
crying for choir boys.

Did you
know that after the game with the Steelers that John 3:16 was the most
“googled” phrase on the internet?

“How
then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall
they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear
without a preacher?” –Romans
14.

Living
the Gospel is not enough. I say roar Tim Tebow, ROAR! Proclaim the Truth of
the
Lion of the Tribe of Judah! Let the world see that you don’t have to be
in Detroit to root for a Lion!

God has
put a crown on Tim Tebow. He is not ashamed to wear it.

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Coach Dave Daubenmire, founder and
President of Pass The Salt Ministries
www.ptsalt.com and Minutemen
United www.minutemenunited.org, is host of  Pass The
Salt radio show heard in Columbus, Ohio.

In 1999 Coach Daubenmire was sued by the
ACLU for praying with his teams while coaching high school in Ohio.
He now spends his energy fighting for Christian principles in the
public domain.

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