Posted on 07/06/2015 6:07:46 AM PDT by Gamecock
While American evangelists such as Franklin Graham and Rick Warren are not afraid of speaking on sensitive topics such as same-sex marriage, abortion, or political strife, Joel Osteen prefers not to discuss those while at the pulpit, saying those topics often "turn people off."
During a recent interview with WBUR's "Here & Now" radio program, Osteen said everybody has his or her own calling, but tackling politically controversial issues is not something that he has been called out to do.
"I have friends who are very political. They're pastors and that's what their thing is. But I think sometimes, in the church world, we can take one issue and make it really, really big and it can turn people off where there are many bigger issues. That's why I don't like to be defined by one thing," he said.
"You know, our message is about lifting people up, helping them fulfill their destiny, helping them to forgive in a tough time, how to make it through this life when life tries to push you down," Osteen added.
The pastor founded Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, back in 1959. It is the largest congregation in the United States, with around 43,500 people attending church services weekly.
Osteen said Lakewood Church continues to grow in number because they focus on issues that affect people in their daily lives as opposed to handling controversial ones.
But just recently, six men belonging to the Church of Wells heckled Osteen during service. "Joel Osteen, you're a liar!" one of them shouted, while another one who carried the Bible shouted some lines from the Scripture at him.
Osteen simply continued preaching, but churchgoers got scared in light of the recent Charleston Church shooting.
Before things could get worse, the six men were escorted out of the church by security personnel. They were later slapped with criminal trespassing, according to World Religion News.
Money, get away
Get a good job with more pay and you’re O.K.
Money, it’s a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I’ll buy me a football team
Money, get back
I’m all right, Jack, keep your hands off of my stack.
Money, it’s a hit
Don’t give me that do goody good bullsh/t
I’m in the hi-fidelity first class traveling set
And I think I need a Lear jet
Are you kind and respectful to, say, Charles Manson? No. You treat him humanely. You do not return evil for evil. But neither are you a sweetie pie to evil. It is VITALLY important that however you treat a person doing wrong, you do not treat them in a way that aids and abets their evil.
When did christianity become so girly? We must hate evil. Returning good for evil does not mean we are lovey-dovey kissy-kissy. But the leaders these days are incapable of making a strong stand against the evil of homosex. It is evil. It is perverse. It is corrupt. And it, as a movement, has targeted our children.
...and just because an argument can be perverted by those who want to do evil, does not mean the argument is wrong.
figures he can get $$ from homosexuals if he keeps quiet about God, morals, and the Bible
Osteen is a coward and this is his Church:
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
Revelation 3:17-18
The gospel is not his calling either
“Osteen is a coward”
I should apologize for saying that,
He may not be a coward at all and he may in fact actually support and agree wholeheartedly with them on ‘Gay unions’ I certainly wouldn’t know,
But it is frustrating that anyone with so many ears open to him and this is all they get, and one who knows that he would lose his rewards on this Earth if he did quote scripture and preach a straightforward biblical message on the subject.
This is exactly as it says in Isaiah Chapter 5, one of those which ‘justify the wicked for a reward’
Judas Osteen.
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