Posted on 07/03/2015 5:53:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Joel Osteen, the popular 52-year-old leader of America's largest protestant church, Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, bluntly revealed that the reason why he avoids speaking out on hot button social and political issues, such as same-sex marriage, is because he believes that's not what he's called to do as a pastor.
In a recent interview on WBUR's "Here & Now" radio program Osteen, who was asked if he felt these hot button social and political issues are important, said: "I think they are important but I think everybody has their own calling."
He further explained that "It's not what I'm called to do."
"I have friends who are very political. They're pastors and that's what their thing is. But I think sometimes, that the church world, we can take one issue and make it really, really big and it can turn people off where there are many bigger issues. That's why I don't like to be defined by one thing," said Osteen last Monday.
"You know, our message is about lifting people up, helping them fulfill their destiny, helping them to forgive in a tough time, how to make it through this life when life tries to push you down," he added.
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Good thing he wasn’t around in the 1770s. ‘Coure, if he was, he’d probably be Pastor of the largest congregation in The Church of England.
I guess that's the job for real evangelists.
Hey, give Joel some slack here. It’s hard enough for him to even sit and talk on religion for a full-hour.
He’s not called to preach the gospel, either. He needs to find an honest job.
What good is a clergyman if he takes no stand on an issue like gay marriage?
this teacher is already married to the world rather than betrothed to Christ,
It’s not part of his best life now.
Aren’t Pastor’s called to take up the whole counsel of God?
He says what moneyed people’s ears are itching to hear.
No speaking the truth in love from this false prophet...
The sheep and the goats are being separated...
I know of a similar sissy “pastor” who’s church actually shares a parking lot with an abortion facility. He keeps his blinders tightly tied against his eyes and says NOTHING about the babies killed next door on a daily basis.
If he’s not “called” to speak out regarding abortion, homosexuals pretending to be married, or other difficult issues, then he’s not called by God, IMHO.
These are not political issues. They are life issues.
Joel’s calling is to make as much money for JOEL as he can. Anything that will smack of going against that is just not his calling.
He was called on to sell books.
Hey, he’s the End Time preacher for the Laodicean church!
He wants Oprah to smile approvingly at him and to continue to be wealthy and popular with this world. The world always loves it own, and it certainly is loving him at least as much as it can for anyone that makes mention of the name of Jesus,
John 15:18-19 -
“If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.”
Pray for him, that he wakes up and becomes zealous for the word,
Its as Jesus told the Church of Loadicea, “I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire”
Revelation 3:17-18 -
“Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.”
“Hey, he’s the End Time preacher for the Laodicean church!”
Very true, we’re seeing Revelation Chapter 3 fulfilled with these prosperity teachers,
“And it might interfere with my cash flow.”
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