“Doesn’t Matter What You Achieve”: Boxing Legend George Foreman Says Jesus More Important Than Fame

The American Tribune ^ | April 27th, 2023 | Will

[shadowlands1960]

Before releasing his biographical film “Big George Foreman,” heavyweight boxer-turned-pastor George Foreman spoke to the Christian Post and reflected on how his faith in God and help from God has affected him throughout his storied life and shared his faith-filled wisdom with the next generation of Christians.

Speaking on that point and how he realized his calling was to preach God’s word, Foreman said, “You come to a point in your life and you realize the only important thing in your life is [to be] an evangelist.”

Continuing, he spoke about evangelism and why it is important to him, saying, “‘Evangelistic’ is the word that has been so powerful to me in my life. If something happened to me tomorrow … I know I’ve done a good job, and I’m happy about that, trying to spell out to the world, ‘Jesus Christ has come alive in me.’”

He also spoke on how people helped him through his challenging life and how he didn’t realize that until later, saying, “So many people helped me in life. I didn’t know that. I thought I was doing so much … but there are so many good people in my life.”

Continuing on that point, he added, “I was given so much advice from so many different people, and it’s a matter of trusting. Trust that people will give you advice. Listen when they have something to tell you. And I think that that is the key to all the riches in the world, is listening to people who care about you.”

[Elsie]

The kids would come in and want to learn to box, they wanted to tear up the world, beat up the world. And I'd try to show them they didn't need anger. They didn't need all that killing instinct they'd read about.

So many black men need to listen to George.

[wintertime]

Beautiful! Thank you.