This makes me want to scream-
When Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow kneeled and prayed during his team’s victory Sunday, little did he know he was kickstarting the latest viral craze. Tebowing—when you “get down on a knee and start praying, even if everyone else around you is doing something completely different,” explains Tebowing.com founder Jared Kleinstein—has become the new planking for the sports set, the Wall Street Journal declares.
Are people so utterly bereft of any kind of sense that anything at all that some jock does is automatically fodder for imitation/ publicity/ mockery?
And the worst part? The sacred act of prayer is now nothing more than an object of derision. Thanks Tim. Maybe you should read the Bible you’re so fond of painting citations of under your eyes and then you’d discover that when you pray you’re to ‘enter into your closet and pray secretly to your father in heaven…’
Prayer isn’t a public spectacle- a show of piety. It’s communion with God either alone (during private devotions) or in the community of faith (as a public uniting of believer’s hearts and minds).
Jesus excoriated the Pharisees for making a show of prayer. I have the sense that he wouldn’t like what Tebow is doing any better.
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