A Twitter record was set for the most Tweets per second (for a sports event), 9420 PER SECOND(!) after QB Tim Tebow’s 80-yard pass won Denver’s playoff game with the Steelers last week.

Part of the reason was that his yards-passing was 316, also a record, and 31.6 yards per pass.  An interesting coincidence made amazing by the fact that Tebow, whose public praying and references to his “Lord Jesus Christ”, painted “John 3:16” in the blacking under his eyes in a playoff game in 2009.  After the coincidence of the stats of the game, Google lit up with searches for John 3:16.

Since, as my pastor pointed out in his sermon this morning, apparently a lot of people don’t know what John 3:16 says, I wanted to share my interpretation of it.  Here’s what it says in my own paraphrase, plus my own commentary and context in parentheses:

“God loved the whole world (and everybody in it) so much that He gave (the life of) His only Son, in order that, anybody who believes in Him will not die (which is the natural result of sin), but (instead) live forever (in a wonderful place God has prepared).”

And the next verse, John 3:17, is every bit as good: “God didn’t send his Son into the world to condemn it, but because He wanted everyone to have eternal life.”

Tebow’s outspokenness about his faith has raised the hackles of some, but it shows that he recognizes there are things that are more important than a football game or all the fame he is experiencing right now.