"Writing about sports was once a full-time vocation for me. I realized that it is not important to people what the score of a game was the next year. What was important were the people playing the sport. I then began to focus on the eternal value of athletics, not the temporal. Writing about Christian athletes who are vocal about their faith is a ministry. People may not go to church to hear a sermon about Jesus, but if they read about Christ through an athlete’s faith, they hear the good news. For The Alabama Baptist to value faith-based sports stories is a game-changer."
Bill Sorrell
Bill Sorrell writes sports features for The Alabama Baptist. He has served as pastor of First Baptist Church, Whiteville, Tenn., for 16 years and is a freelance sports writer for Memphis’ Commercial Appeal daily newspaper and national sports magazines.
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