I recently watched a video from Pablo Torre about the Life Surge seminar that has been traveling the country. It featured Tim Tebow and mostly athletes local to the city Life Surge happened to be in. In my case, it was David Ortiz when they were in Boston.

I got the ad in my Facebook feed. A brief glance at the ad was all I needed to recognize it as a waste of time.

I knew that it was the prosperity gospel repackaged. If you don’t know, the prosperity gospel is when a false teacher, like Paula White, would tell their audience that if they send money to her, Paula White, then God would bless them 1,000 fold. That was usually how the scheme works. Benny Hinn has been running this scam for four decades. Just search Cleflo Dollar demaning that his congregation of goats or tares give him $50 million dollars for a new private jet. Kenneth Copeland owns several private jets. And there’s Jesse Duplantis, Bill Johnson, Craig Groeschel, any megachurch pastor, some are more popular than others, but they are everywhere.

Anyway, the celebrities and athletes were not Christians. David Ortiz is not a Christian. Certainly, Urban Meyer is not a Christian since the major scandalous event was the video of him dancing provocatively with female coeds at a bar.

So Pablo Torre did an expose on Life Surge. He found out that the organizers were offering a seminar of financial advice for a fee of $99, available at that price on the day of the seminar only. People signed up and went to the building for the seminar. At the meeting, the people were sold another set of seminars that could cost up to $30,000 or something stupid like that. They were suggesting that the suckers, I mean, applicants could get credit cards, which Life Surge was more than happy to help them get them. They could also get a second mortgage, home equity loan or withdraw money from their retirement accounts.

A scam if I ever saw one.

Torre focused on the involvement of Tim Tebow. Did he know what was happening? He definitely did. I heard some of the clips of his speeches at the shows. He was making the same promises that the televangelists were making through the television. The twist he put on it was that God did want them to be poor or rich, just not in need. The message is basically the same.

Pretty soon, Christian (?) YouTubers caught onto this scheme. The word spread. Eventually, Tebow had to remove himself.

The danger of this type of fake Christianity is grave. It preys on the desire of people to have more, the sin of coveting, the desire to have what they don’t currently have. And Life Surge, with the help of Tebow, exploited that weakness to pad their bank accounts.