‘Something Much Bigger’: NBA Star Allan Houston on Faith and He Gets Us Campaign
By Movieguide® Contributor
Former NBA All-Star Allan Houston is sharing his faith as the spokesperson for He Gets Us, a media campaign intended to reintroduce people to God.
Houston, who grew up in a “heritage of faith,” shared that “faith was the source and foundation of everything” he did growing up.
“At that time, I started to understand my strengths in sports, and I just felt like there was something bigger that was calling me [and] driving me to think about–not just about trying to be important to my peers, or to uphold a certain status or name, or to play basketball and get noticed,” Houston explained. “To me, I understood there was something much bigger, and God’s voice just resonated with me. And I responded.”
He compared his teenage faith to a basketball player trying to make a game-winning shot.
“It’s unknown, but you don’t want to live with the notion of what if I didn’t take [it],” he said. “And that’s kind of how I’ve always lived…He called me, and He told me that ‘I have a future for you, and I’m going to challenge you.'”
Faith, he said, has “given me a certain way to think, a certain way to perceive my life, a certain way to perceive my purpose, a certain way to be driven by impact and not material things.”
He was excited to partner with He Gets Us and the foundation behind it, The Signatry, to help users understand who Jesus “really is, and how He knows us, and wants to push us and move us and love us and give us the best opportunity to be what we are called to be.”
He Gets Us commercials from Houston’s campaign will air at this year’s Super Bowl.
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