Kudos to you for disagreeing but also finding the positive! We all need a dose of medicine like that.
I don’t recall ever hearing Joel ask for money let alone saying people will be blessed if they do so. He doesn’t even take a salary.The only safe way to watch these guys is if you are laughing at them. Look carefully at Osteens stage; not a single Christian symbol any where.
Be sure and send him lots of $$$$$ because God will reward you 10 times over.
I agree… great comment!!!
RUN!!! Read the Early Church Fathers, watch EWTN, read the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Joel Osteen is not really a Protestant. He’s created his own religion of Osteenism. He has no objection or protest of any faith tradition as long as you send in the long green to Joel.
Osteenism, eh? Hm! Weird.
YES.
Like the case with the Osteen family I would compare brother Matthew with his father Tommy and brother Luke, who used to have the First Family in Whittier CA, but now seems set to sucede his father back in Arizona. His gift probably manifest itself as the administrator of the Dream Center the success of which lead a Foursquare supervisor to recruit him for the senior pastor position at Angelus Temple. As a stand up preacher he is among the weakest I have seen who has a regular TV show , Dream Center unless they changed the name in the last couple of years, on the international evangelic networks.
Tommy is right up there with Charles Stanley…Matthew is weak as you say…Luke is older and is easier to listen to…What is a father to do…sometimes you got it and sometimes you don’t…
yea…to me it comes down to a waste of time, unfortunately, because he is a pretty able orator,
This just might put the notion of the value of a seminary trained pastor to a guy like Olsteen…building on another man’s work…it appears that the flocks come for something other than being prepared…says lots does it not…yea…to me it comes down to a waste of time, unfortunately, because he is a pretty able orator,
and has a large following, just think what would happen if he used his stage to preach the
gospel, like a protestant Billy Graham (better yet like a Fulton Sheen, but i can’t see him becoming Catholic)
He basically presents a Cross-less gospel (think that’s an oxymoron) using the Christian
name under which he preaches feel-good, prosperity gobbleygook, while saying nothing about
the cross, and Christ’s suffering for sin, sacrifice, his blood etc, and everything that revolves around these.
His congregation needs to spend the money to send that man to a seminary, i think…what
could it hurt.
A pastor without a Bible? That’s a new one for me. Now I’m going to have to watch.The only safe way to watch these guys is if you are laughing at them. Look carefully at Osteens stage; not a single Christian symbol any where.
Be sure and send him lots of $$$$$ because God will reward you 10 times over.
He always reminded me of Ed Grimley.The only safe way to watch these guys is if you are laughing at them. Look carefully at Osteens stage; not a single Christian symbol any where.
Be sure and send him lots of $$$$$ because God will reward you 10 times over.
You don’t hear him ask for money when the cameras are on. There is not just one safe at Lakewood but many.
Why? Just brush your teeth and then hook one index finger in each side of your mouth. Stretch said mouth until the breaking point. Look into the mirror and now you have experienced Joel Osteen. Amen? Oh, one more thing. Send me a lot of money and then I’ll have experienced Joel Osteen. Amen?A pastor without a Bible? That’s a new one for me. Now I’m going to have to watch.