Posted on 09/03/2014 4:42:15 PM PDT by Gamecock
These recent dialogues regarding Reverend Victoria Osteen and her little husband have really become quite thought-provoking, Amen?
My lovely wife watches the Osteens’ self-love TV program, as well as Andy Stanley and his father, Dr. Charles Stanley. She and I also do attend the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Amen?
I much prefer the Latin Mass, perhaps because I am an over-educated conservative reactionary elitist. However, I can drink deeply of what Dr. Charles Stanley preaches. I can also appreciate what Andy Stanley teaches. I consider them Christian psychologists, though, but truly bible-based, Amen?
Victoria Osteen studied some Psychology, but never even graduated from college. Joel Osteen has no formal theological or even philosophical training. There seems to be no veritas, no gravitas, and no spiritual substance to what they say.
I simply cannot respect the Osteens’ presumptuous authority to tell me about the Gospel or the Lord, Amen?
Do we really have to explain John 14:6?
A lot of false teachers mention Jesus, but preach heresy.
Matthew 7:21-23English Standard Version (ESV)
I Never Knew You
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Do I have to explain John 15:22 and John 9:41?
When Jesus announced the Good News to the poor, sight for the blind, deliverance to the captives in his first sermon, the religious of his time tried to throw him off a cliff.
Religious folks never change. They despise the Good News.
I’m so glad Hans the Heresy Hunter can take time away from God’s Word, and his suffering for the Lord, to attack another ministry. The ministry of criticism, strife, and division is a very important office in the Body of Christ. That calling requires a very, very special person. And Hans probably has a fancy outfit to go along with his position. One that suits his office, and his theological supremacy.
Osteen doesn’t have a ministry.
He has a perpetual motivational seminar.
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