The world and media has dubbed him with nicknames like Lin-sanity and Lin-sation. Now the meek Harvard grad Jeremy Lin is speaking out about his Christian faith, using his platform to Glorify God. In a candid interview Lin says he listens to the music of Christian Rapper Lecrae and Christian Contemporary group Hillsong. He tells Fuse TV why he listens to Christian music. “To remind myself why I’m playing the game and to remind myself I’m playing to glorify God,” states Lin.
What an amazing endorsement for those two Christian artists. This from Lin who bounced around the NBA like a ping pong ball just months before taking the nation by storm.
People have called Jeremy Lin the Tim Tebow of professional basketball. A compliment to his underdog rise to stardom as a professional athlete. But it seems that he has more in common with Tebow then the world knows. Both players are Christians, fans of Christian music, and using their platform to glorify God. Jeremy Lin said when prompted, “I’m a fan of Tim Tebow, I’m not ashamed to say that.”
In a report by Charisma Magazine some of Jeremy Lins’ old roommates from Harvard spoke about the character of this young phenom. “Jeremy was in the spotlight at Harvard before he was in
the spotlight in the NBA,” Lins old friend and roommate Adrian Tam says. “He showed that Asian-Americans could be leaders, they could be athletic, and they could be bold and open about their faith in a winsome way.”
Lin was involved in an on campus Christian group called the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship (HRAACF). Lin’s involvement in (HRAACF) and the broader Asian community at Harvard was somewhat limited because of his basketball commitments says Adrian Tam, who was an HRAACF Campus staffer during that time.
In a video testimony, Lin said he missed Christian community at Harvard until he connected with HRAACF. Tam became a spiritual mentor to Lin, meeting with him regularly, studying the Bible together and reading together such books as Too Busy Not to Pray. “He loved his roommates, spending lots of intense one-on-one time with them, leading investigative Bible studies with them, and just plain hanging out with them,” Tam says.
What Tam remembers most about Lin, from the time they first met, was his humility. “Even though he was more accomplished, smarter and just plain bigger than I was, he always treated me with respect and honor,” Tam says. “He was real with me, earnestly desiring to follow God in all things. He had a quiet ambition—not only to be the best basketball player he could be, but also to be the best Christ-follower he could be.”
“Jeremy Lin is the kind of alum that makes InterVarsity Asian American Ministries proud,” says James Choung, director of InterVarsity’s Asian American Ministries (AAM). “I’m not talking about his prowess on the court, though it’s fun to see. What I love is that when he’s given the spotlight, he gives glory to God and others in a way where his humility shines through. And because of who he is, he’s giving national attention to Asian-American Christianity as a whole.”
You can listen to Lin talk about Christian music in the video below. Click Here to read the full story on by Charisma Magazine.
