Yessss.
LakeWood church was Joel's fathers church and it is not a fad!
I understand you have a problem with his style, but this is a Christian man doing God's work!
Why don't you fly down and actually sit in sometime.
I swear I don't get you LakeWood bashers??
Check out Joel's website and tell me what the problem is, please.
http://www.joelosteen.com/site/PageServer
False prophets never survive. The Anglican church will be dead in the mext 10 years.
bttt
Yes, he is. I happen to know Todd quite well; we were classmates at seminary. He is a fellow pastor in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.
Todd Wilken hosts an excellent radio/Internet program called "Issues, Etc." Here are the links:
Very good article by Mr. Wilken. (My cousin married a Wilken ... nice man.)
A few years ago, I stopped in a Catholic bookstore run by a good friend, a deacon in our parish in Tulsa. I'd left the kids in the car, and just ran in to pay for a book I'd asked him to order. As he was ringing up, I said, "If reading made you perfect, I'd be it!" and he said, "Yeah, me too!" As I went out, he called, "See you 'round the Big House!" and I waved. That was the last time I saw him; he died of a brain aneurism the following week, 52 years old.
What's the point? The point is that, as a compulsive book-buyer (Lee would call me when he had something he thought I'd want, even if I'd hadn't asked!) I understand the lure of spiritual fads. It's the idea that somehow, there's a magic formula that will make us what we should be, what we honestly want to be ... something other than the daily drudgery of loving the unloveable, forgiving the unforgiveable, taking up the Cross daily and walking to our death with Christ. Well, there's not.