An Investigation Into Life Surge Leads Two Prominent Christian Figures to Suspend Their Ties

The allegation at the center of this story is specific: people attending events built around Christian purpose and success were pressured into borrowing tens of thousands of dollars. Groeschel and Tebow responded by stepping back from an organization their names had helped legitimize. Notice what their response is not. It is not a declaration that the investigation's claims have been proven, and it is not a verdict on what actually happened inside those events. It is a suspension — a decision that the credibility they lent out should not keep flowing while serious questions remain unanswered.

That distinction matters, and the psalm helps us see why. It does not picture truth as something a person already holds and defends. It asks to be led by truth and taught by it — all day long, which is to say continuously, not once. That is a posture of ongoing correction, and it applies less to the allegations we hear about others than to the trust we extend ourselves. Most of us did not lend our names to Life Surge, but we have all borrowed credibility: the teacher someone recommended, the cause a friend championed, the organization whose reputation we assumed rather than examined.

There is a real limit here. An investigation's allegations are not established facts, and suspending ties neither proves wrongdoing nor repairs any harm that may have occurred. What the moment does expose is how much of our trust runs on borrowed names — and how rarely we ask honest questions of them until something forces the issue. The uncomfortable part of this story is not that allegations surfaced about someone else's ministry; it is the admission that our own endorsements often rest on reputation rather than examination.

So the takeaway is a practice, not a condemnation. We can hold the names we endorse a little more loosely — loose enough that when truth arrives, it can actually change what we do. This week, it might mean asking one honest question about an organization we have trusted without scrutiny.