Beijing to host Christian athletes
Michael Redd
With the Olympics on my mind (is everybody else counting down as well?), I was delighted to get an interesting report about Christian athletes competing in the Summer Olympics set to begin Friday in Beijing, China.
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes sent out “The Heart And Soul in Sports” report today, which lists some of those athletes and their comments about their faith.
Included in the FCA report is NBA star Michael Redd. The Milwaukee Bucks guard said: “Since I’ve had the Lord Jesus Christ in my life, miraculous things have happened to me. I just thank God every day for Him blessing me and showing me favor when I’m not worthy of any of that. I keep Him first and I’m diligent in keeping Him first.”
Incidentally, Redd was already on my mind because we just found out today that the Bucks will play the new Oklahoma City NBA team in the latter’s season opener in October at the Ford Center.
Meanwhile diver Laura Wilkinson of Houston is also among the Christian athletes listed. She said: “I know that I don’t need a gold medal or a certain score on the scoreboard to know that I’m special, that I matter and that God has a plan for me. We each matter because God made us each unique and special. No collection of titles, medals, degrees or money can give you that. We can put our hope in Jeremiah 29:11 when God says that He has plans for us, not to harm us, but to give us hope and a future.”
Men’s marathon runner, Ryan Hall, had this to say about his faith: “Being free to run means not carrying the burdens of this world. It’s the freedom to not have to achieve something to be able to just go out and do it for the love of doing it.”
For more about the Olympics and the Christian athletes who have competed in the games, visit FCA.org.
Carla Hinton
Religion Editor
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