This year’s favorite March Madness underdog is a Christian college in Tulsa, Oklahoma, named for Pentecostal evangelist Oral Roberts. But while Roberts preached prosperity theology, the coach leading his school’s winning basketball team does not.
Head coach
Paul Mills tweets Spurgeon
quotes, has a master’s degree from Dallas Theological Seminary, and says that
hearing the Bible misused—especially in sports, where winning is often
connected to God’s blessings—makes him “go bonkers.”
TGC asked
him about Big God theology, growing up poor, why he took a job at Baylor months
after one player murdered another, and more.
Read the entire article by Sarah Zylstra at The Gospel Coalition here.
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