{"id":422,"date":"2009-08-27T00:10:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T04:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/27\/ministry-in-footballand-the-military\/"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:29:23","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:29:23","slug":"ministry-in-footballand-the-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/27\/ministry-in-footballand-the-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry in Football&#8230;and the Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow has made frequent appearances on this site.\u00a0 The reason is simple:\u00a0his view on the role of Christian faith in <em>everyday<\/em> life reflect a maturity and belief to which all should aspire.\u00a0 He consciously uses his platform to share his faith, and his example is particularly applicable for those in the military.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpnews.net\/bpnews.asp?id=31139\">most recent article<\/a>, Tebow deflects praise and emphasizes the importance of using his platform to serve Jesus Christ:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tebow understands that God has given him a great platform from which to proclaim the name of Jesus.\u00a0 He calls football his &#8220;ministry&#8221; and wants to use his gift to &#8220;influence people for the Kingdom of God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, Tebow wants everyone to realize that each of us has a &#8220;ministry&#8221; wherever we are gifted&#8230;&#8221;I encourage kids out there to recognize the ministry they have in their classes,&#8221; Tebow says, &#8220;and do the most with that, to influence their friends in a different way.&#8221;\u00a0 This applies to adults in business or in their neighborhoods as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This applies to all Christians, including those in the military.\u00a0 God places Christians in their positions\u00a0for a reason.\u00a0 The amazing platform that a\u00a0fighter pilot, Navy SEAL, Marine, or <em>any<\/em> military veteran has is unquestionable.<\/p>\n<p>The key is what you choose to <em>do<\/em> with it.<\/p>\n<p>Prior discussions about Tim Tebow: his <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/28\/ambassador-warrior-tebows-platform-for-christ\/\">platform<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/10\/championship-winners-witness-criticized\/\">criticism of his witness<\/a>\u00a0on the field, his shared <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/08\/heisman-winners-share-a-common-faith\/\">faith with another Heisman winner<\/a>, and his <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/01\/revisited-military-christian-priorities\/\">demonstration of priorities<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow has made frequent appearances on this site.\u00a0 The reason is simple:\u00a0his view on the role of Christian faith in everyday life reflect a maturity and belief to which all should aspire.\u00a0 He consciously uses his platform to share his faith, and his example is particularly applicable for those in the military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,2,10,41],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-churchandstate","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-tim-tebow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}