Reflex Action
Theme of the Week: Drawing a Line
Steve Riach
Sunday, September 22, 2002
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Reflex Action
Theme of the Week: Drawing a Line
Sunday, September 22
Key Bible Verse: We should be decent and true in everything we do, so that everyone can approve of our behavior (Romans 13:13). Bonus Reading:Romans 14:20-21
In 1996, just prior to his Heisman Trophy-winning senior season at Florida, quarterback Danny Wuerffel declined an invitation to be named a member of Playboy magazine's all-America College preseason football team and their National Scholar Athlete of the Year. His decision cost him an all-expense-paid trip to a posh Phoenix resort for a photo-shoot with the other 23 college players selected.
"It didn't take any thought at all," explained Wuerffel at the time. "That's not the type of person I'd want to portray myself as."
Wuerffel speaks frequently at churches and schools, and believes appearing in such a magazine would "confuse" those who look to him as a role model.
In college, Wuerffel led Florida to three straight SEC championships, passing for more than 10,000 yards and 114 touchdowns—second all-time—and compiling a 163.6 passing efficiency rating, an NCAA career mark. Then it was on to the NFL, where he continues to model character. "My commitment," he says, "is to represent God in all I do."
—Steve Riach in Heart of a Champion
Adapted from Heart of a Champion (Broadman & Holman, 2001) by permission
Copyright © 2002 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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September/October 2002,Vol. 5,No. 5
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