Tebow Draws Big Crowd to Texas Easter Service

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Thousands of worshippers turned out for an outdoor Easter morning service featuring an appearance by New York Jets backup quarterback Tim Tebow at a central Texas church.
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Tebow was scheduled to speak Sunday at Celebration Church’s “Easter on the Hill” service on a rolling grassy field about 20 miles north of Austin.

The event had the feeling of a rock concert with hundreds of school buses shuttling crowds to the sprawling megachurch from nearby shopping malls. The church invited people to bring lawn chairs and blankets for the two-hour service under sunny skies.
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abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/tebow-draws-big-crowd-texas-easter-service-16096366

I hope someone posts this on Youtube. I’m really curious how an NFL QB who hasn’t gone to seminary school will approach giving an Easter sermon.
 
Big whoop! Travis Lulay (BC Lions) is a devout Catholic and he actually knows how to play football. 😃
 
Good for Christianity. He’s keeping it polite, and he’s right the country sure could use a little more of in God We Trust. 🤷
 
SamTheNewNewfie said:
Never heard of him…😊🤷
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I assumed from your name that you were Canadian. The BC Lions won the Grey Cup last year! Although, I imagine that not everyone actually cares about the CFL. 🙂 Anyway, he belongs to my former parish.
 
Considering that I have been through Georgetown (the town he is speaking in) a few times I have to say that size crowd is probably going to overwhelm the town. It’s not that big. You will miss it on your way in or out of Austin unless you know about the college there and the caves nearby that have tours. I’m more interested in how that little town can handle that kind of crowd than I am in Tebow!

That being said, I think he is a great role model-especially in the sports world. There are a lot of athletes that get famous and their morals seem to go out the window. He seems pretty grounded.
 
Cardinal Dolan has a good sense of humor about Tebow’s ability to draw a crowd:
“We are delighted you are here. You’d think I’d be so happy that we got over 3,000 people at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, you’d think one Timothy Dolan would be happy,” Dolan told the congregation, according to NY1.

“But I’m jealous because one Timothy Tebow has 25,000 in Texas.”
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Read more: dnainfo.com/20120408/midtown/cardinal-dolan-green-with-envy-over-tim-tebows-easter-service#ixzz1raIdtzV7
 
I show up for Christ, not some boring QB. Sorry Tebow, but Easter is about JESUS…you should not be why people come!

Easter also should not be a “rock star concert” environment!
 
i read that about 15,000 people showed up to the Easter service. granted, i am sure many did come to see him, but a majority came for the Easter service. after Tebow left, only about 200 did not remain to hear the pastor’s sermon.

in defense of Tebow and people saying that Easter is about Jesus and not Tebow. perhaps he is hoping that young people will listen to him and his testimony and he can help to bring some to Christ because they believed his testimony. maybe he wanted to share what JESUS has done in his life with this crowd and his love for Jesus. by the way,
i am not a sports fan. so i am not biased because he is a good football player. i think he can be a good role model and i applaud him for his courage to not hide his belief in Jesus Christ.
 
jediliz said:
I show up for Christ, not some boring QB. Sorry Tebow, but Easter is about JESUS…you should not be why people come!

Easter also should not be a “rock star concert” environment!
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Better they come for that than not at all, even if we had a “rockstar” Priest, I would take that. Doesn’t matter to me why you come, but hopefully this young man has an opportunity to touch souls.
 
I agree. The hope is it’s come for the quarterback, and stay for the Head Coach.
 
Hmm, go see a QB say some stuff…

or

Go to a Catholic Church and receive Jesus’ Real Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity…

I’ll take the Eucharist, thank you very much. 🙂
 
Personally, I think the guy is overrated. Yes, it was only one game but the Bears beat themselves in their game against the Broncos last year. (The Bears had a 10-0 lead and could have just ran out the clock when they had the ball.) You probably won’t find many Bear fans praying with Tebow leading the prayers. Just saying.
 
VeritasLuxMea said:
Better they come for that than not at all, even if we had a “rockstar” Priest, I would take that. Doesn’t matter to me why you come, but hopefully this young man has an opportunity to touch souls.
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I’m sure Tebow would be the last person to claim that the event was about him. All the time he was here in Denver, he was always very self-effacing and humble, and preferred to spend time encouraging sick young kids in private than to have the media following him around. I for one was very disappointed in Elway’s actions, and I’ll be rooting for the Jets this year, especially if they play the Broncos! (Sorry, Mom…)

Tebow is one of those rare people who uses his fame to talk about Jesus, rather than talking about Jesus to gain notoriety. Just imagine if he should come into the complete fullness of truth in the Catholic Church, what a spokesman he’d be for the Faith! And as Jesus Himself said, “He who is not against us is for us…” In today’s public climate of venomous hostility against anything having to do with Christ, I should think any public figure who speaks and acts as positively about Jesus Christ as Tebow does can only be an asset to the Church.
 
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