Confessions of a Recovering Pharisee

This week has been the SEC Media Days for the upcoming football season. It is held just 5 miles from where I live. I didn’t get to go by there because I was working. But I listened to a lot of the talk on Sport Talk Radio.

One lawyer turned journalist (if you can call him that) named Clay Travis who writes a blog called Fanhouse.com decided he was going to ask Tim Tebow the QB of The University of Florida if he was a virgin in front of all of the reporters. Clay came on several of the local radio programs here in Birmingham and was laughing about the question he was going to ask.

Tim Tebow is a beast of a football player.(I’m not a Gator fan at all–I Roll with the Tide) He is arguably the greatest college football player ever. But he is also a devout follower of Jesus Christ. He puts scripture verses below his eyes when he plays QB. When other college students are going to the beach and getting in trouble he goes and speaks at prisons, goes overseas, and talks to children about his relationship with Jesus Christ. He is the kind of guy you would want your daughter to date.

But because he is such a great football player and such a Godly guy people like Clay Travis want to find the chink in his armor. Instead of praising Tebow some are trying to bring him down.

Clay Travis, who writes a column for AOL’s FanHouse.com, asked Tebow on Thursday if he was still a virgin and “saving himself for marriage.”

After composing himself, Tebow answered, “Yes, I am,” and then good-naturedly gigged the media present in the TV and Internet room for being stunned by the question.

As another reported stumbled through trying to ask an unrelated question, Tebow laughed wildly and said. “Ya’ll can’t even ask a question. I was ready for the question, but I don’t think ya’ll were.”

Travis tried his best to stick it to Tim Tebow but Tebow threw it back at him! He didn’t get offended. He didn’t dodge the question. He said he expected it and yes he is going to wait until he gets married. What a great example to all believers of how we should always be ready to talk about our faith.

1 Peter 3:15 NIV says:

But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,

What do you think?

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