Tim Tebow Says True ‘Agape’ Love Requires This…

Published: March 13, 2026

By Mallory Mattingly

Tim Tebow understands the true meaning of “agape love,” but do you?

“When we look at the life of Jesus, one of the things that I’m so impacted by over and over again is this love for the most vulnerable, but not that He just says it, but He acts upon it,” Tebow said on an episode of “Takeaways with Kirk Cameron” on TBN. “And the greatest form of love is not an emotion; it’s a choice — the agape form of love — and I believe the best definition for that is to choose the best…interests of another person and act on their behalf.”

The former NFL star went on to describe what it means to put love in action.

“You see, when we as believers say that we love people, then we are going to choose their best interests, and we’re going to act on their behalf,” Tebow continued. “It’s not about, ‘Oh, I love them, and I’m going to feel bad for them over here.'”

“I’m not just going to have sympathy or empathy. No, I’m going to love them. I’m going to choose their best interests and share the Good News of the Gospel,” he emphasized. “I’m going to choose their best interest, and I’m going to care for them. I’m going to choose their best interests and find help, to get help, to rally people for them.”

Tebow understands this more and more each day through his work of caring for the “most vulnerable people around the world,” the Tim Tebow Foundation website reads.

One way Tebow does this is through his fight to end child sexual exploitation.

Last week, he testified in front of the Senate to urge “Congress to vote YES on the Renewed Hope Act of 2026, a game changer in this battle.”

“Humbled and grateful for the chance to testify yesterday in the Senate on behalf of all the unKNOWN boys and girls who have no voice,” he wrote in a post on social media last week. “Child sexual exploitation is not shrinking. It’s growing. Live-streamed abuse. Sextortion. Grooming. Runaways being targeted. We aren’t winning. We are losing every day in this battle.”

“Every minute we hesitate, more children are harmed. That has to stop. Our country’s most precious and vulnerable lives have been forgotten,” the Heisman trophy winner continued. “Every day, these children lose hope…but we believe this is a problem we can solve. Lives can be redeemed, and these children can once again find hope. Just with the three sprints through Operation Renewed Hope, we identified more than 1,100 of these boys and girls, and rescued more than 550 already.”

“We have the strategy. We have the tools and we have the expertise — we just have to commit the resources and the will to act on a larger scale,” he emphasized.