EXCERPTS FROM THE COMPLETE ARTICLE - JANUARY 16, 2012 EDITION:

by Jon Meachan

What is new and what makes Tebow an intriguing figure - no matter how the Bronco’s do in the playoffs they just barely made - is the scale and scope of his witness… Depending on your point of view his rise is a thoroughly American story of honest conviction, or of ostentatious piety, of faith and family or aggressive sectarianism…Tiebow’s personal story is mythic.  His Mother was advised to seek and abortion early in her pregnancy with Tim.  It is become part of Tiebow’s lore that when he was safely delivered, despite a barely attached placenta, doctors called it a miracle… Through high school and college, he divided his time between football and his ministry…During his high school years, he was the subject of an ESPN film “The Chosen One”…

At the University of Florida, he led fellow students in weekly Bible studies, preached in prisons, schools and hospitals, ushered the team to a national championship, and won the  Heisman Trophy…When Tebow put JOHN 3:16 in his eye black during a University of Florida game, he set off a 92 million Google searches for the Scripture…his face book page has 13 million subscribers…To Tebow is to get down on one knee and start praying even if everyone else around you is doing something completely different.

…the young quarterback has already given us a glimpse of what lies ahead for Evangelical Christianity and for America.  



One of Tebow’s favorite Bible verses:

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus (Philippians 3:14).