Patrick Mahomes Discusses His Spiritual Growth
By Church News
On Monday during Super Bowl Opening Night, Patrick Mahomes spoke more about his faith in God.
“My Christian faith plays a role in everything that I do,” he said (video via FSPN). “I always ask God to lead me in the right direction and let me be who I am for His name. So it has a role in everything that I do. Obviously, we’ll be on that huge stage in the Super Bowl that He’s given me, and I want to make sure I’m glorifying Him while I do it.”
Chief’s team chaplain Marcellus Casey said that Mahomes is a regular attendee at the team’s chapel services, and the 27-year-old said he’s recently enjoyed spiritual growth.
“I feel like I’ve grown in my faith these last few years and I think that’s given me more sense of who I am and why I play the game,” he said, adding, “It just kind of relieves the pressure of playing a football game because I know that I’m on that football field to glorify Him before everything. So it’s not about winning or losing, it’s about going out there and being the best that I can in His name.”
Patrick Mahomes said that a passage in Acts 20 has impacted him recently, so much so that he got a tattoo about it. It’s the story Eutychus in Acts 20:7-12.
“It’s about being half in and half out on God. That’s the interpretation I took from it, and how you can’t be half in and half out,” Mahomes said. “So that was the Bible verse that kind of stuck with me, that told me that I needed to be fully in.”
As he remains all in with God and aims to glorify Him while playing on the biggest stage, Mahomes will test his injured ankle on the State Farm Stadium grass starting on Sunday.