Your article captures the bankruptcy of most of today’s assemblies. They hunger for ear-tickling motivational speeches trying to make this experience better, more enjoyable. Even believers are tempted to view the guaranteed suffering as something abberant and follow these heretics.
But, all of this error is itself managed by God as a deluding influence pouring over the world. Whether we are in the final chapter is yet to be seen. The Gospel, however, is diminishing in both presentation and influence among the population. Thanks for the post.
The Pentecostal movement is especially vulnerable to this kind of teaching. They swallow stuff like this not only from Osteen, but Hinn, Popoff, Copeland, etc.
I have been in a meeting where it has broken out in *holy laughter* and it was a result of a rather well known *worship leader* who was great with the theatrics and working the crowd. If you could sit back and watch it objectively without getting caught up in it, you could see so clearly what was happening.
I have an acquaintance who I do believe is sincere in her profession of faith in Christ, but went to one of these meetings and got *filled with the Spirit* and is still justifying blatant, unrepentant sin in her life. There are other things in her life which cause me to wonder if she’s merely been deceived and is not really saved.