He is lower than a car salesman and a game show host
I think he has a remote control but plug that vibrates with each new 1000 dollar advance on the tote board
Did he pack all his cash to take with him when he left?
He’d open the doors if he could get away with charging admission. :)
I’m no fan of Osteen but wouldn’t that arena have a flooding problem of its own? Of course if it did, he’d be asking for funds to repair it already.
Stop with this
The announcement to the congregation was that services were cancelled because flooding made it hazardous to travel to the church
You think it is safe for anyone to travel there?
Do you think the members of the congregation are not dealing with the needs of their own families and neighbors in Houston?
Do you think the church is prepared to just suddenly staff an emergency shelter for weeks or months ahead? You think they just magically summon food water sanitation medical and security personnel?
Grow a brian and stop emoting like a moran
It does seem cold.
I think he’ll find karma comes in a Christian flavor too.
Just another holy roller fleecing the suckers...hes just more successful at it than most of the grifters.
Wow, in that pic, Joel looks like a young Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish.
“If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace, be warmed and filled,’ without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.” - James 2:15-17
The ‘Prosperity Gospel’ works for certain preachers but not necessarily their flock.
http://babylonbee.com/news/joel-osteens-bible-makes-daring-escape-abusive-owner/
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I’m no big fan of his, but don’t understand the bashing here. He’s supposed to turn his church and facilities into a shelter and let it be damaged as the Superdome was in New Orleans?? I don’t get this. No fan of this guy but don’t get why he’s being bashed over this flood.
The roads around the church and probably the first floor of the church itself are flooded.
Even if it were not flooded you’d be asking people to get through floodwaters to get to a place that has no food, no water, and no way out.
You’d create another Astrodome crisis like what happened in 2005.
Why the hell would you want to do that???
Prob fig the great unwashed public will dirty up his nice clean arena.
You will know them by their fruits.
Of course the OTHER version of the article deals with what would have happened if he did open his church:
“Joel Osteen, in yet another attempt to gain publicity, threw open the doors to his church to all who need shelter in this terrible storm. Since he does not have the capability to provide shelter-related services (food, clothing, bedding, medical care, etc.), he is relying on the assistance of government agencies.
This raises an important question regarding the separation of church and state and whether Osteen is attempting to convert the people staying in his church to his radical, hate-filled, form of Christianity (i.e., he’s against perverts in girls’ locker rooms). Ima Leek, head of the ACLU in Houston, considers this to be exactly the case, and has filed suit in federal court to get an injunction regarding this blatant attempt at proselytizing...”
He is busy praying?
(She didn't mention there that the poured out blessings they can't contain were actually many, many raindrops.)