Vanderbilt Tight End Uses Platform to Spread ‘Message of Christ’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Vanderbilt football tight end Eli Stowers is on a mission to tell others about Jesus.
In a video shared by Christhlete, Stowers explained why he writes “Team Jesus” on one arm and a “different Bible verse on my left arm” for each game.
For a recent game, the athlete wrote 1 Corinthians 10:31, which reads, “So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”
“My faith is the biggest thing to me,” he explained. I’m a Christ follower. I want to be able to spread the message of Christ and how He died on the cross for us because that’s the most important thing.”
Stowers often uses his social media platform to also spread the message of Christ.
In several different posts, he shared different Bible verses in the captions.
One post included John 3:30, which says, “He must become greater; I must become less.”
Another post features James 1:2-4: “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.”
He also shared James 4:1-10. Verses 7-10 read:
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
The tight end was key to Vanderbilt’s victory over Ball State over the weekend.
When the Commodores were trailing Ball State during the closing minutes of the second half last Saturday, “tight end Eli Stowers made his latest high-impact play for the Commodores — lining up as an H-back, hesitating as he moved through the line of scrimmage and then taking a screen pass from quarterback Diego Pavia 41 yards into the end zone. Vandy (5-2, 2-1) would not trail again en route to its 24-14 victory over the Cardinals,” Nashville Post sports/football/texas-native-stowers-readies-for-vanderbilts-showdown-with-longhorns/article_ae904656-9093-11ef-83e5-234666048925.html">reported.
Stowers isn’t the only player on Vanderbilt that is open about his faith.
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