Joel Osteen and others like him couldn’t thrive if there weren’t millions of people with itching ears who won’t stand for sound teaching. Men like Osteen are tools of judgment in our sovereign God’s hands. He uses men like Osteen to give people exactly what their depraved hearts want. Osteen is a symptom, not a cause.
If you look hard enough at any preacher you’re going to find clay feet, warts, and the like.
I think the most popular Christian sport is “Damn those other guys.”