April 21, 2003

AFTER the San Antonio Spurs played basketball April 11, NBA legend David Robinson took the court for a special program that featured music by Texas Baptist Clifton Jansky. Robinson and Jansky, with help from Spurs player Kevin Wills, told a crowd of about 4,700 people that the only way to live successfully is through faith in Jesus Christ. Fans received CDs with recordings of Robinson's and Jansky's testimonies, as well as some of Jansky's songs.

Robinson & Jansky team up to testify to Spurs fans
___By Craig Bird
___Special to the Standard
___SAN ANTONIO--NBA legend David Robinson spoke of options while country singer Clifton Jansky sang about fences April 11 at the San Antonio Spurs post-game Christian fellowship.
___They were different messengers with the same message: The way you live changes when Jesus is Lord.
___"God gives his righteousness freely to all, but we each have two responses to that gift," Robinson told a lively crowd of 4,700. "We can trample on it, or we can live it."
___He faced up to that choice in 1991, he said, when he accepted a minister's challenge to "spend an entire day with God" reading the Bible and praying.
___"When I realized that God is my Father and that I had not been living faithfully for him, I cried," he said. "When I realized God loved me like that, it changed the way I treated everybody. It changed how I treated my family and my friends--even how I treated my enemies."
___Spurs teammate Kevin Willis--referred to as "my partner in righteousness" by Robinson--told how his faith has anchored him through a 20-year NBA career.
___"People ask me how I can still keep up with these 20-year-old kids I play against and why I have avoided major injuries," Willis said. "I tell them one reason is because I have a good work ethic and I stay in shape. But the main reason is because as a high school junior I knelt in the corner of the school yard and asked God to be my Lord and to guide me and protect me. And that is what he's done."
___Jansky, the current Christian Country Music Association male vocalist of the year, sang several songs, including one of his major hits, "Get Off the Fence" about a cowboy, "never making waves, trying to fit in, never taking a stand, sitting on the fence" until the Spirit of God impresses him that "you can't serve me and stay on the fence."
___"I used to please me, myself and I, ... thinking only of me and never of him," he sang, urging the crowd to "stop flirting with the devil and ... get off the fence and live a life that's true."
___Upon leaving, fans were given free limited-edition CDs and printed copies of Robinson's and Jansky's testimonies.
___Jansky, a member of First Baptist Church in Universal City, said three San Antonio businessmen paid for the production of the CDs.
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