Tim Tebow's dad wants to convert Catholics in the Philippines?

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I’m pretty sure the title was talking about Tim Tebow’s father… 🙂
 
Savior2012 said:
I love Tebow Time, he has done more for Christians then most and his courage on issues like abortion are outstanding!

Where is the Catholic version of Tebow? That is the million dollar question.
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Phillip Rivers, QB of the San Diego Chargers.
 
JustaServant said:
No. I’m tired of hearing what a ‘wonderful christian’ he is.
When his daddy is trying to convert Catholics.
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Tim is a wonderful believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. He preaches the Lord Jesus Christ by word and deed. If you are “tired of hearing what a wonderful Christian he is” go on vacation and get some rest.

More of us need to preach the Lord Jesus Christ the way Tim does.

Grace and Peace,

QC
 
MarkAndrew said:
But that’s just me I guess.
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Listen, I’m actually kinda like you. I too don’t like broadcasting my faith too much. However, it’s best you really do keep the above words in mind. It’s really just you.

We are all called to live our spirituality in different ways. You need not walk the same path as them and you’re no more holier than they are if you do.

The thing is though, it’s pretty much become part of a popular figure’s image if they like to broadcast their faith in that manner. Be it Tim Tebow or Manny Pacquiao, I find that these two being religious has simply become a part of their character and image. Something like that, I just have to let be. They like to express their religion as part of who they are.

Guys like me though? Hah! I wouldn’t even carry a Rosary even if when I do hit celebrity status. :rolleyes::p:cool:
 
KathleenGee said:
Yes, Catholic converts are ‘trophies’…some thing wrong with that form of faith…better they re-direct it towards those who impoverish their own filipinos or the Muslims there who do not know the love of Christ.
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Unfortunately the former are generally Catholics themselves. Some activists (crazy they may be in their own right) go as far as to say that they’ll put you on an extra-judicial hit-list for talking too much. :rolleyes:

Ah my country, you are officially the Mexico of Southeast Asia.
 
Yes, so true…but hopefully some day, some thing will happen and they will return…it is not good for families to be divided…it causes the ending of family prayer for all members.
 
QuickCat said:
Tim is a wonderful believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. He preaches the Lord Jesus Christ by word and deed. If you are “tired of hearing what a wonderful Christian he is” go on vacation and get some rest.

More of us need to preach the Lord Jesus Christ the way Tim does.

Grace and Peace,

QC
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Troy Polamalu is a wonderful Christian as well, and I have yet to see him do what Tim does on the field. He is very active in supporting work with the homeless and the poor in the Pittsburgh area, and nationally for that matter. I don’t know of many Orthodox athletes, but Polamalu is a very devout Orthodox Christian.

By the way, the best way to preach the Lord Jesus Christ is in how you live your life and how you love others. That speaks more than anything. When your life shows the truth of what you are saying, then you are preaching a good sermon (maybe even without words, because actions speak much louder than words). When you sense true holiness in a person, you sense something very special and want to know what makes that person the way that he or she is.
 
CopticChristian said:
I believe that it is time to do something. We have talked about it. We have complained. It used to be a problem communicating, not anymore. I ask any and all interested parties to pray, think, write and then send concerns to the Phillipines…below is the link to the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Phillipines…

cbcponline.net/v2/?page_id=1043

this is the legal arm of that department…

cbcponline.net/v2/?p=774

send emails and express concern for the lack of respect Bob Tebow is showing the integrity of the Phillipino Catholics…quote Tebow and his notion of people that have not heard the "gospel’…the use of the word Catholic as if they were not Christian, the invasion of schools and villages and anything else you have a mind to say…

Below is the Phillipine government website…search for departments to write emails of complaints and the mockery of Bob Tebow as it concerns their country, invasion of the schools, and lack of concern for the country…

dfa.gov.ph/main/index.php/links/rp-government-agencies

I will be formulating and sending emails…do something…we can and we should…👍

I just sent this email to the Phillipino tourism dept…
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I also sent an email. We need to join together in this cause. Catholics have been silent too long when they are being portrayed as non Christians.

God Bless 🙂
 
MarkAndrew said:
There is a big difference in worshiping God, being proud to be a Christian (Catholic) and making a spectacle of yourself. I believe Tebow’s acts are for show and I believe it’s a sin. I’m a proud Catholic, but I let my actions speak for me, I don’t need to go around bragging to everybody that I’m a Great God Fearing Catholic.
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There is absolutely no evidence that the man is not sincere. Maybe he’s just so excited about the gifts and opportunities that God has given him that he can’t help but express it. Geez. This is a guy who spends hours each week, even right before and after games spending time with sick kids. Why presume the worst about him, even if he doesn’t yet have the fullness of truth in the RCC? I do suggest reading the article at the below URL:

espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/7455943/believing-tim-tebow
 
katherine2001 said:
I do believe that it is sincere, however, he forgets that Christ tells us to pray in secret and not out on the street corners making a big show of it. We are to give alms and do acts of mercy the same way. We do them in secret and don’t make a big deal of it (as my priest used to tell us, if men give you praise for the acts that you are doing, you already have your reward). We can pray anytime, anywhere and have people not even know that we are praying. We don’t (and shouldn’t be) making a big production while doing it.
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If no one preached and prayed publicly, no one would know about Christ. I’m sure Tebow does plenty of private praying as well. Lots of athletes pray visibly during games, it’s not Tebow’s fault the media focuses on him so much.
 
Shelda…

Catholics are finally starting to stand up here in the USA…when other Christians spread vile things about Catholics, everyone’s witness as Christians is damaged.
 
CopticChristian said:
I believe that it is time to do something. We have talked about it. We have complained. It used to be a problem communicating, not anymore. I ask any and all interested parties to pray, think, write and then send concerns to the Phillipines…below is the link to the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Phillipines…

cbcponline.net/v2/?page_id=1043

this is the legal arm of that department…

cbcponline.net/v2/?p=774

send emails and express concern for the lack of respect Bob Tebow is showing the integrity of the Phillipino Catholics…quote Tebow and his notion of people that have not heard the "gospel’…the use of the word Catholic as if they were not Christian, the invasion of schools and villages and anything else you have a mind to say…

Below is the Phillipine government website…search for departments to write emails of complaints and the mockery of Bob Tebow as it concerns their country, invasion of the schools, and lack of concern for the country…

dfa.gov.ph/main/index.php/links/rp-government-agencies

I will be formulating and sending emails…do something…we can and we should…👍

I just sent this email to the Phillipino tourism dept…
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I had mentioned harassment in an earlier post in this thread and was told there was no such thing going on. Unfortunately, that attitude has changed. I’m not sure why there is such hardness in one’s heart against other Christians but I am praying for you.
 
Slinger said:
I had mentioned harassment in an earlier post in this thread and was told there was no such thing going on. Unfortunately, that attitude has changed. I’m not sure why there is such hardness in one’s heart against other Christians but I am praying for you.
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Your prayers have prompted me to send another email.🙂
 
Slinger said:
I had mentioned harassment in an earlier post in this thread and was told there was no such thing going on. Unfortunately, that attitude has changed. I’m not sure why there is such hardness in one’s heart against other Christians but I am praying for you.
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Not to worry the government is as officially neutral on religion as the United States government. They can not act as armed guards for any church wishing to stop other churches/religions from setting up shop.
 
4Squarebaby said:
Not to worry the government is as officially neutral on religion as the United States government. They can not act as armed guards for any church wishing to stop other churches/religions from setting up shop.
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Many countries view American evangelicalism as a kind of invasion of AMERICAN and WESTERN philosophy and culture into their soveriegn nation. Health and wealth preachers in Africa selling people who live in mud huts the “have a need, plant a seed” (send your money to Big-haired Guy Evanglelistic Association), a “theology” popular only in the US is viewed with suspicion, understandby so.
No one is calling for armed guards, but you fail to see things through their eyes.
You view them as “tropies”.
They see it as an invasion.
 
4Squarebaby said:
Not to worry the government is as officially neutral on religion as the United States government. They can not act as armed guards for any church wishing to stop other churches/religions from setting up shop.
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Neutral? The Philippine government?

Hehe…ehehehe… eheha…AHAHAHAHAHA!!! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Sure, you’re technically right that there’s freedom of religion here. However, my government is far from neutral. It takes a side that’s for sure: they smell the most money. :rolleyes:

Unfortunately, that kind of leaves plenty of religious groups out. Signs of diminished funds are rampant in a lot of parishes. 😛
 
emails to Bishops and school administrators fair enough. Emails to the immigration in an attempt to throw people out of the country was suggested.
 
4Squarebaby said:
emails to Bishops and school administrators fair enough. Emails to the immigration in an attempt to throw people out of the country was suggested.
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If the “missionaries” stayed within the realm of religion that would not be necessary.
But they don’t.
Stealing money from trusting people to line thier pockets can be considered in matters of deportation. As can dabbling into politics, which they do as well.
 
I can see the problems other countries have with American Evangelical and Mormon missionaries coming in…there is an invisible break up of faith among family members that in time will have its impact on the greater society, just like it has happened in Europe and the USA, the family breakdown opening the door for the less religious members to go secular.

Catholicism is truly binding to God, and once that bond is broken by leaving the Church…people begin to fragment…may be it doesn’t happen in one generation, but over time it does.

I have seen Filipinos from the Islands come here, the hard working ones, and then see the secular culture in time overcome them…and I have seen them start going to Mass in time.

A Portuguese nun told me that she perceives American Christian faith as one that was built on alot of material goods…God always helps us out materially…but where will the faith be when that material world collapses…I think of those more of the prosperity bent…
 
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