Jeremy Lin, a Harvard grad, and Knicks teammate Landry Fields, a Stanford man, geek out before games with a handshake ritual.
Posted on 03/23/2012 1:23:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
New York City is no hotbed of evangelical Christianity. Both in geography, and in God-fearing, the Big Apple is a long, long way from the Bible Belt. For example, the city’s sole evangelical Christian college — The King’s College — takes up just two floors in the Empire State Building.
But thanks to the trade that will bring Tim Tebow to the Jets, New York will soon receive a religion lesson. At the beginning of February, New Yorkers had no good reason to mix religion and sports. The arrival of Tebow, and sudden emergence of devout evangelical New York Knicks point-guard sensation Jeremy Lin, makes the Big Apple home to two of the most high-profile evangelicals in the world. “It’s incredibly exciting,” says Sean McNamara, vice president of field ministry in New York and New England for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. “It’s awesome.”
Evangelical leaders hope that Tebow and Lin can help their message stand out in a religious melting pot.
“We’re ready for Tebow to be a bigger voice for what we are doing in New York,” says Woody Woodfin, an outreach coordinator for Athletes in Action, a sports ministry group in the New York metro area. At the same time, Woodfin says he’s also “a little fearful” for Tebow. “In New York, there are vices that can be a trap for a young guy like that,” says Woodfin, who also founded Street 2 Street, a series of urban basketball tournaments that mix competition and Christian ministry. “It’s easy to get caught up in the New York scene. And if a high-profile guy like Tebow does something out of character, something unbecoming of a Christian, we’re going to hear about it.”
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Having worked in Midtown, many, many years ago, I can just see all the “brown trails” on the 5th Ave sidewalks when Tebow educates those libs. Go get ‘em, Tim.
NYC is a big place. There might be as many as eight practicing evangelicals there.
“NYC is a big place. There might be as many as eight practicing evangelicals there.”
Actually, there are more than you might expect. For one example, see Redeemer Presbyterian, an evangelical Presbyterian church in Manhattan, pastored by Tim Keller - http://www.redeemer.com/ - they fill several services every Sunday, and I have heard that Lin attends there. There are also many evangelicals of Korean, Hispanic, and African-American background.
Werll I’m sure it won’t be a problem because liberals are always talking about tolerance and diversity so I’m sure they will welcome Tebow and Lin with open arms because afterall they are tolerant openminded pro-diversity liberals.
***At the beginning of February, New Yorkers had no good reason to mix religion and sports.***
Oh, I’m sure someone, probably the NYT, will come out and claim they ‘found a letter’ written by Thomas Jefferson or John Adams or someone admonishing the separation of sports and religion.
And Mayor “The Putz” Bloomberg will make a law...
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