Christians in Super Bowl LVIII: What Brock Purdy and Harrison Butker have in common
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The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
While you may not need another reason to watch this Sunday’s Super Bowl, I find the game more fun when I know a bit more about the players deciding its outcome. In particular, I like knowing which players are Christians and, it turns out, there are quite a few on both sidelines. There were two testimonies in particular, though, that stood out, and there’s a powerful lesson in their stories for all of us today.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. Today is Friday, February 9th, |
| 0:06.0 | 2024. I'm Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Ryan Denison. |
| 0:14.0 | My favorite NFL team is the Dallas Cowboys. My second favorite team is whoever is playing the Philadelphia Eagles. After that, |
| 0:23.1 | I tend not to care too much about who wins any particular game, and that includes this Sunday |
| 0:28.3 | Super Bowl between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs. I'm still going to gather |
| 0:33.5 | with family to watch the game, and for more on how to use the Super Bowl to cultivate community, |
| 0:39.8 | find a link in today's podcast episode notes to Christian Englert's recent article. |
| 0:45.5 | But the game's outcome isn't nearly as important to me as the competitiveness of the game, |
| 0:50.9 | the quality of the commercials, and how much I can eat before a new champion is crowned. |
| 0:56.9 | Given that relative degree of apathy regarding the teams on the field, I find myself focusing |
| 1:02.2 | more on the players, particularly those who seem to have a strong relationship with the Lord. |
| 1:07.3 | And it turns out there are quite a few players and team personnel on both sidelines |
| 1:12.2 | who are Christians. Paul Bond has a great article up at Newsweek and profile several of the athletes |
| 1:19.3 | as well as the efforts of groups like he gets us to once again use the Super Bowl as a platform |
| 1:25.8 | for sharing the gospel. For today, though, I would like to |
| 1:29.1 | focus on two players in particular, Brock Purdy, quarterback for the 49ers, and Harrison Butker, |
| 1:36.9 | kicker for the Chiefs. They are far from the only Christians playing on Sunday. For example, |
| 1:42.3 | I read about the faith of running back Christian McCaffrey, |
| 1:45.5 | the legacy of devotion in Eric Armstead, the public witness of quarterback Patrick Mahomes, |
| 1:51.1 | the servant leadership of chief's owner Clark Hunt. Learning more about these men will |
| 1:56.7 | encourage your faith as well. But the stories of Purdy and Butker in particular stuck out to me this week. |
| 2:03.3 | In a recent interview with Hall of Fame quarterback Steve Young, Brock Purdy discussed the role of |
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