Deion Sanders had a surprise win against Texas Christian University, the 17th ranked college football team in the country going into the season and the runner up of the championship last season. Their decline would continue to the benefit of the University of Colorado, last year’s doormat in the PAC 10, and one of the worst Power 5 college football teams. Deion Sanders, after having success at Jackson State, an HBCU, got hired at Colorado to helm the team. The former Hall of Fame cornerback in the NFL used his brand to recruit players and after one week the results were promising.
This is an interesting story in and of itself. However, Deion Sanders’ invocation of Jesus after the win last Saturday is not something Christian media should fawn over. Yet that is what Christian Post did this past week. In the middle of bloviating Deion Sanders took some time to thank god.
“Thank you, Jesus. I’m so thankful right now,” Sanders declared in a post-game interview with Fox Sports during which his quarterback son, Shedeur Sanders, praised his father’s leadership.
“This is a blessing. Everybody, Buff Nation who supported us and all the hood that had my back. I thank y’all. God this is good,” added Sanders before ripping into all his doubters who didn’t believe he would have been able to turn the team around.
Christian Post then credits him as a Christian despite a lifestyle that suggests otherwise for an interview was marred by pettiness and ego.
Digging into the theology of Deion Sanders, it’s clear that at best he’s Prosperity Gospel. One of Sanders’ most influential pastors is the late Prosperity preacher, Eddie Long, and he’s associated with TD Jakes.
Perhaps Christian Post believes that celebrities normalizing the name of Jesus will be edifying for the body, but Deion Sanders is a cult of personality coach, not a leader of men. And to zoom in on a tiny part of his interview as clickbait amidst the contradicting evidence is simply bad reporting.
