Would you buy a used religion from this man?
One of the things that has gone wrong for Christianity throughout the Western world is its adulteration with non-Christian, anti-Christian poobah. And no one has done more to adulterate it than good ol’ grinnin’, gruntin’, Joel Osteen.
https://chalcedon.edu/resources/articles/the-osteenification-of-american-christianity-review
Hank Hanegraaff (“The Bible Answer Man” on Christian radio) skinned Osteen alive in this little book he wrote in 2014. You can read it in a sitting. It’s important because, if you think about it, you very likely know someone who’s been listening to Joel Osteen and thinks he’s the bee’s knees.
Shame on us who never read the Bible and don’t know what it says. Shame on us who do know, but never speak up to defend it. Shame on the Church for letting itself be thinned out and eroded.
We really do have to do better.
His smile is as big as his hair as big as his bank account. “What, me worry?” His punishment should be forced to send money to everyone who asks. That’s the way HE got it.
My mother got cable TV at her apartment not long ago. Soon after, she started talking about this wonderful pastor she was watching. She couldn’t remember his name, but I knew immediately who she was talking about. When I told her he was a false preacher who doesn’t know the Bible well at all, she got angry with me. In her mind, because he makes people feel so good, he must be good, right?
In her defense, she’s 88 yrs old and very naive about such things. Which is kinda scary, because that’s exactly the demographic that gets sucked in and scammed the most.
It’s another spiritual pollution. We’re putting together quite a collection of them, these days.
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I can’t stand osteen
Jesus never preached a prosperity message. He said to expect to be hated and persecuted. Yeah, I’d like to be rich, but I’d rather be spared at the time of judgment.
I second your thoughts!
On second thoughts, does the sentence “I second your thoughts” make sense?
Sure, if you do it telepathically.
I had to look that word up!
“I don’t know!” – Joel Osteen