The Rev. George Foreman flipped his Bible open to the Book of Genesis, let fly with a left hook for Jesus and sent Satan sprawling into the ropes.
“You’ve got to learn how to fight!” he exhorted. “If you believe in God, you’ve got to fight for him.”
The Sunday morning faithful, warmed by a hand-clapping round of gospel singing, rocked on their hard wooden pews with the verbal punch.
At 66, Foreman ”” a two-time world heavyweight champion and veteran of more than 80 scarring professional boxing bouts ”” might be graying, his card-topping pugilistic battles long over. But in his bout against sin as pastor of north Houston’s Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, he is still a powerhouse slugger.