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Interesting post….I have not seen a whole lot of Prince - just a few snippets here and there - but in that small sample, I had not heard him slip into the Osteenization syndrome. He’s over packaged, over cool, uses his accent in an exaggerated way - but I had not heard Osteen in there.
Not to dispute your theory….you heard what you heard….just thought I’d throw that in.
With great bravado, he impugns biblical characters, including a hapless paralytic in the Gospel of John. In Osteen’s twist of the text, Jesus encounters a man by the pool of Bethesda just “lying around feeling sorry” for himself. In response to Jesus’ “simple, straightforward question,” the paralytic begins “listing all of his excuses. ‘I’m all alone. I don’t have anyone to help me. Other people have let me down. Other people always seem to get ahead of me. I don’t have a chance in life.’” With nary a hint of mercy, Osteen continues: “Is it any wonder that he remained in that condition for thirty-eight years?” In sharp contrast, Osteen says his sister Lisa arose from the ashes of a painful divorce and remarried. Unlike the paralytic, she “wasn’t going to sit around by the pool for thirty-eight years feeling sorry for herself” (Your Best Life Now, 148–149, 151).
We did all these things in your name. “Depart from me for I know you not”
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Prosperity preaching has been around for a long time. There is nothing new under the sun.
I was listening to the Fighting for the Faith radio show and heard someone describe Osteen as a “hyper-pelagian” and thought that was right on the mark.
The author, Hank Hanegraaff, has written a short, but informative article on literal interpretation of the Bible:
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Are we allowed to comment on this post or is it as if it happened behind closed doors in the church?
Behind the smile is a robust emphasis on all that is negative. If you are healthy and wealthy, words created that reality. However, if you find yourself in dire financial straits, contract cancer, or, God forbid, die an early death, your words are the prime suspect.
What do these people, and these congregations (won't call them churches) do when tragedy comes? Say, a senseless car wreck, or someone dying alone in an apartment a thousand miles from family? What do those preachers say?
Perhaps these people lead a "blessed" life and never experience pain. I've seen too much death lately to ever give any credence to this false teaching.