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FYI Thx budiA -----Original Message----- Sent: 06 Juli 2005 PRO TENNIS PLAYER MICHAEL
CHANG
STARTS
A NEW TRAINING REGIMEN AT BIOLA
Michael Chang’s tennis career is legendary. He won 34 titles (including
beng the youngest male to win a Grand Slam title at age 17), he was the
first Asian player to be ranked in the world’s top 10, and he achieved the No.
2 ranking – winning nearly $ 20 million in prize money. Fans loved him for
encouraging Asians to enter the sport, for his gentlemanly character, and for
his openness about his Christian faith. Chang retired from professional tennis
in 2003 and enrolled in Biola’s seminary, Talbot School of Theology, this past
fall. He recently accepted an invitation to join Biola’s Board of Trustees. My purpose for coming to Talbot [Fakultas
Teologia] was to increase my knowledge of God therough His Word, so my ministry
would become more effective. I do a lot of speaking engagements through our
family ministry, the Chang Family Foundation (mchang.com). I learned about
Biola when I was invited to speak at the school’s annual charity golf
tournament. My first three weeks at Talbot were
humbling. I had a hermeneutics class with Dr. Russell, and I
realized I had been taking Scripture verses out of context. I was six when I started playing
tennis. My older brother, Carl, and I would watch my dad play
in club tournaments. My mom told him, “Why don’t you take the kids out and
introduce them to something you enjoy?” At age 15, I won two national
tournaments in the 18 and under junior division which got me
a wild card into the U.S Open. I went on to play three more professional events
as an amateur and went from having no ranking to a ranking of 163 in the world. One Sunday, when my family attended
my grandparents’ church, an elderly Chinese lady spoke. I
still remember what she said: Sometimes we
don’t understand or recognize what God does at a particular time but, later, we
will. Her message stirred something inside me as a 15 years old. I
started seeing circumstances happen in my life that I knew weren’t by
coincidence. My faith in the Lord grew. Being a Christian in the tennis world
is difficult. There are very few Christians on the tennis
tour. I had opportunities to share my faith with players, but I can’t say that
any of them came to know the Lord. Maybe a seed was planted and, somewhere down
the road, that seed will germinate. I got along well with Pete Sampras.
He is six months older than I am, and he turned professional six months
after I did. We were both from Tennis has always been fun for me,
even when money was at stake. Obviously, there is quite a bit
of money in tennis. But I never played for the money. There’s a reason God brought me to
Himself during my rookie year. Had it happened after all the
money, success and fame, it would have been easy for me to say, “Lord, I had
all these things before I knew You.” But the Lord helped me to understand that
He had given me the talent to bring glory to Him. The crackdown at ……………………………………………………………………………………………… (Dipetik dari Majalah BIOLA
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