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“We don’t pray about who wins the game or any of that stuff. That’s not what it’s there for. We pray basically as an acknowledgment of who God is…" -- Eugene Robinson
Eugene Robinson lived his faith loudly. He walked the walk, he talked the talk, he lived publicly for God.
And then he was caught in a compromising position at a highly political time in a very public fashion. Three strikes.
I'm not prepared to judge Eugene Robinson. Most of us are fortunate enough that our faults are not headline news. Yes, he had some indiscretions, the consequences of which he has to live with. However he's also done some very good things in his life, and it's those things I choose to celebrate. I hope you will, too.
Source: Bible.org
In Sports Spectrum Ken Walker tells how after a Monday night football game in 1990 several players did something for the first time that would later become a common sight. When the game ended between the San Francisco 49ers and the New York Giants, eight players from both sides gathered in a huddle in the center of the field at the 40-yard line nearer to the scoreboard. There they bowed their knees for all to see and prayed together in the name of Jesus Christ.
The brief prayer meetings caught on and gained their highest visibility several years later with Reggie White and his 1997 Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers. One Packer, Eugene Robinson, explains the purpose of the players coming together to bow their knees: “We don’t pray about who wins the game or any of that stuff. That’s not what it’s there for. We pray basically as an acknowledgment of who God is and that men will see that He exists.”
The players have taken heat for their public stand. An article in Sports Illustrated advised the players to pray in private, and the NFL made noises for awhile as though they would shut the practice down. But the players stood firm, some saying they were willing to be fined for the practice, and prayer huddles went on.
 
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