If I thought Osteen was not a snake oil salesman putting the souls of all of those people who attend Lakewood, watch on TV and buy his books at risk of eternal damnation I wouldn’t give it a second thought.
BTW, you do know he denied Jesus on national TV, don’t you?
I saw the segment people, perhaps you, had posted and then read his apology where he told of his being taken to task by his congregation. What you raise as a club to strike him with is a trespass I've forgiven.
I've noticed that, despite all of us having been created by the same hands, we are all different and are at different places in our walk through life to our reunion with the One who created us and to His Judgment for our walk.
Believe it or not, some of us are quite damaged by Satan's tricks we've fallen for and by his traps we've fallen in and, in our spiritual death throes, we may not hear His Call or are blind to His Light, at least from what has become the many, many chunks and pieces of His Church.
If someone like Osteen can speak to those who no longer will listen to what others believe is the ONLY right church or the only correct voice or the only correct way, as they believe, then I believe he is doing good, that it is God's Will at work through Osteen's will and that the Holy Spirit will speak to the newly opened heart.
As many have noted, Osteen combines self-help psychology with God help psychology, correcting the apostolic, rebellious error self-help psych makes by leaving out God.
For many, that is enough to open their hearts enough for some of His Light to chase away some of Satan's shadows.
And, that one step, perhaps a first step or the same step again, could be a great victory for them, especially if that step leads to another and another and another and a love for the One whose blood stained footsteps they seek to follow.
It's not my place to take that away from them. I fear the place where such an action will lead me.