Do NFL Players....Who Are Christian....Give Glory To God....In What They Do For A Living?

                There is an article up at cbn.com right now....that's Pat Robertson's network....that quotes a half dozen or so players from both teams of tomorrow's Super Bowl....and the consensus of all is that God blessed them....and they do what they do to give glory to God.
                I can't remember the name of the Christian sports magazine....this somewhere in the 90s....but I would regularly bring home a copy to our son....(you could buy these in the Christian bookstore....of which there are hardly any left.) So I acknowledge the effect that a sports hero can have on an impressionable teen.
                Our grandson is starting to play basketball....and I could envision telling him....sometime in the future.....Lord willing.....the story of Pete Maravich....who was one of the best basketball players of all time....and who became a Christian at 35 years old....and who later made the statement that he wished he had spent all the time he had learning about basketball....learning about God's Word.....(or words very similar.). Pete died on a basketball court at 40 years old....and right now as I type....is praising his Lord and Savior....in unimaginable light and glory and peace and Joy!
               Is it necessary to mention Chariots of Fire....of which I mentioned in these posts a dozen times at least....and watched the film at least 30 times....and repeated the story of Eric Liddell so many times in my life?
               I understand and rejoice in the testimony of sports athletes. Two days ago I picked up a book at Ollies....(Good Stuff Cheap)....a biography by Olympic Gold Medalist David Boudia....and read it overnight....a wonderful testimony....but all of this has to be placed in the right perspective. Let me say this about Eric Liddell....as faithful as that man was.....to God....to the Lord's Day....and to his missionary work....his theology was not good. He was a little too admiring of the terrible theology of Harry Emerson Fosdick....among others in extreme liberalism. So what do we do...discard what Eric Liddell did? No.....we put it in perspective....which is what we should do with the Super Bowl players giving glory to God.
              God can use their testimony.....but that does not legitimize spending their life in a profession that tramples God's absolute commands to honor the Lord's Day. It would not overlook the fact that NFL football is pure unadulterated idolatry....and responsible in no small way for the ninety year collapse of America....this after the game took over the Lord's Day in the hearts of many believers.
               This is hard stuff....and I doubt if the reader here accepts the warning that I give. I know fully well that there are many avenues of idolatry out there....and surely I have my own. The Super Bowl is an abomination as it has developed. America's collapse is advanced and in full swing....evangelicalism adrift....preaching mediocre at best....and the Lord Himself at the very doorstep....along with His holy and mighty angels....and Christians everywhere tomorrow will be sitting in front of a TV....along with the ministers who failed to give them the slightest warning....but God is in charge. Others should confront their own failings on this....I should search out and confront myself in my own failings. God surely had mercy upon Eric Liddell for his ignorance....and Liddell’s life brought God glory....may He have mercy upon all of us....for we all have contributed in one way or another...to what this nation and church has become.