I am not a Joel Olsteen fan, but this type of disruptive behavior in someone else’s worship service is not Christ-like. What goes around, comes around and it is going to be ugly enough for the church without Christians doing this kind of thing.
Jesus threw out the money changers on the Temple grounds because the area they doing “business” in was supposed to be a place of prayer for Gentiles who wanted to worship God (it was the only area near the Temple that Gentiles could have access to.
What these people were doing was criminal trespass.
So if someone is preaching a heresy like the prosperity gospel, we should just let them? Osteen is leading many people to the gates of hell with the idea that since God loves all he will forgive all. When has he preached repent from your sin and turn from your wicked ways and nail those sins to the cross?
John 2:13-16
13The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.14And He found in the temple those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables.
15And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables;
16and to those who were selling the doves He said, "Take these things away; stop making My Father's house a place of business."
**Jesus threw out the money changers on the Temple grounds because the area they doing “business”**
Maybe they were in the bookstore?
The faithful were commanded to get out of Sodom and Gomorrah, not go in and heckle the doomed
While their behavior could be called into question, it’s not criminal trespass to go where the public is invited in.
I have a hard time seeing this as a "worship" service..it is more of a motivational gathering.. No preaching of the cross.. ....