You should watch and listen to the interview Hume did with O’Reilly again. 1 minute 30 seconds into the interview Brit clearly states “Jesus Christ offers Tiger Woods something that Tiger Woods badly needs.”

There is the cheap grace, that is not grace, that some in the Church speak of.

Real grace is a grace of blood sweat and tears, and yet agrace of peace that passes comprehension, and joy that is difficult to express, and love that is beyond knowing.

Have a terrific weekend and Lord’s Day.

I don’t think we need to have it down pat every time we share our faith. And Britt is at a particualr season in his faith.

What he did was refreshing. I commend him. I pray he would grow close to the Lord, and that the Lord would fill him with a desire for His Word, (which it seems he has), and a love for Jesus, and his neighbor. And that he would come to hate his own sin. Amen.

Tiger Woods doesn’t need religion, he needs salvation and faith in Christ. I wish Hume would have made that distinction for the majority of the population who see “Christianity” as just another faith option.

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I’m more than thrilled with the way Brit Hume has held up Christ as the answer to Tiger’s dilemma.

As good as this is, there are a few things that continue to frustrate me with regards to how many Christians in the media spotlight tend to represent Christianity. I see a few of these things over and over.

1. O’Reilly asked him “Isn’t this proselytizing?” And he responded with “Well, I don’t think so…”

Why are Christians today so afraid of being termed a proselytizer? He should have said an enthusiastic “YES!” to that question! There is no one who does not proslytize! Sadly, many Christians have been persuaded (proselytized?) by the secular relativist culture to act as though our hope in Christ is a nice little internally helpful anecdote rather than the life-altering thing that it is.

2. Hume – “And we are thereby offered through that act a new covenant in which we are offered forgiveness and redemption on a continuing basis in return for our faith in God and our continuing efforts to live the Christian life. ”

I agree with a previous poster – Why are many Christians in the media spotlight so afraid to be distinctly different than other religions and say the truth – that their salvation is all about grace through faith, and has nothing to do with our “efforts”? I hope Hume just worded that part poorly and doesn’t think that his salvation is a transaction with God in exchange for his efforts.

3″I certainly want to pursue my faith more ardently than I have done.”

I fear this is Dualism rearing its head again, as a previous poster had mentioned. We need Christians in the public sphere, living grace-marked and Christ-like lives out in the open!

I really did like what Hume had to say. Really. I just had these thoughts as I read it.

Sorry to hear his son died that way. I pray for Brit to grow near to Christ. I pray we would all grow closer to our Savior. Amen.

Maybe, but not necessarily.

Yet another example of how Christians are separating sacred/secular.

I rejoice in the fact that the name of Jesus is being proclaimed, but for me this is a “wait and see” thing. Why? Because if what Hume publicly promotes as the Gospel is contained the words he spoke here, then he is saying things that are not grace. What he describes in the words above is no more unique than the Buddhism he says Woods should abandon. It is just another system of works under the banner of Christ.

The attacks he is receiving can be summed up in two words: spiritual warfare.

As is correctly pointed out, no one gets up-in-arms over atheists saying much worse about Christianity. But let a Christian hold up his faith as the only true path – and watch out. As Mr Hume correctly points out, this is how it has always been and will always be. May God bless and strengthen him.