(Mother Teresa "Tebowing" for an end to poverty)
No doubt the Denver Broncos are one of the latter teams. While the Broncos and their quarterback Tim Tebow have had some exhilarating 11th hour wins this season, they were humbled by two sizable losses last week and the week before.
Those sports reporters and social critics that were quick to dub Tebow "God's quarterback" who was performing "miracles" in football games, have been silenced by these losses, while people like Bill Maher has used the loses at an attempt to mock Tebow, God and Christians.
(Nelson Mandela "Tebowing" for unity)
Maher and others have been out of line in their recent comments about Tebow, about God and about Christians. However, we should have anticipated them. Calling Tebow "God's quarterback" and referring to the games he and his team have won this season as miracles has been most
(President Obama "Tebowing" for guidance)
irresponsibly done to satisify our need to have everything packaged neatly with a cute name. You know, Jennifer Lopez can't be Jennifer Lopez, she has to be JLo. There's a ScarJo, a Brangelina, and a KFed. All packaged neatly with cute names.
(Dr. Martin Luther King "Tebowing" for peace)
And so when God is packaged in the form of a Denver Broncos fan and communication with that God is cutely referred to as "Tebowing," its easy to mock. God becomes easy to mock.
This isn't Tebow's fault. He didn't create this mess. I wish him well. But I wish Tebow's humbling would teach us that there are somethings that don't need slick, cute packages or names and the Creator is on of them.
I'm not optimistic that we will learn from Tebow, but I am Tebowing right now that we do.
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