HOUSTON \u2014 The Rev. George Foreman flipped his Bible open to the Book of Genesis, let fly with a left hook for Jesus and sent Satan sprawling into the ropes.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019ve got to learn how to fight!\u201d he exhorted. \u201cIf you believe in God, you\u2019ve got to fight for him.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The Sunday morning faithful, warmed by a hand-clapping round of gospel singing, rocked on their hard wooden pews with the verbal punch.<\/em><\/p>\n The article quoted above goes on to speak of an incident in 1977, following a boxing match, in which Foreman had a vivid experience in which he felt he was struggling with death, and realized that he didn\u2019t truly believe. \u00a0He then felt a sense of Christ\u2019s presence plucking him out of darkness. \u00a0Read it all: \u00a0New York Times<\/a><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We aren\u2019t talking here about Cardinal Ratzenberger in his pre-Pope years, or any of those evangelical leaders who are vocal about politics, but about a real boxer; namely George Foreman. \u00a0It appears that in his post-boxing years he has become a pastor in Houston. HOUSTON \u2014 The Rev. George Foreman flipped his Bible open to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[205],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-stories","tag-george-foreman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}