One of the most encouraging things to come out of the just-past Superbowl is Tony Dungy's public testimony to Christ, which has been in all the papers and tv stations leading up to and following the game itself. But more encouraging to me than all this is Coach Dungy's life, which backs up his oral profession to Christ. It's not just that Dungy professes to believe in Christ but that he actually puts this into practice. His profession actually works itself out in his every day life as a football coach. He does not raise his voice in anger and does not swear. He consciously is seeking to be different.
In a day and age when the church looks just like the unbelieving world around us--i.e., when unbelievers cannot tell the difference between Christians and themselves because our lives, our speech, our priorities, our goals, and the means we use to achieve those goals look just like the world--it's refreshing to see a Christian man not only profess with his lips his faith but actually live that profession out in his everyday life.
If we could learn from this and expound upon it, so that we are applying Biblical principles to EVERY area of our lives, it would only be a matter of time (humanly speaking) before the church would transform the world as we know it.
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