You are saying that he doesn't help them find the path to the One who Saves?
Your gifts of perception and discernment are far beyond my basic skills.
God is not a sugar daddy, and one doesn’t come to Jesus for salvation without first knowing they need a SAVIOR.
If you’re coming to Jesus for health, wealth, and prosperity, to help you fix up your life so you can live your best life now, you’re missing the boat.
Jesus didn’t die to make good people better and give them a good life.
He died to save us from the penalty of sin, which is death.
He did it all and does it all. There is NOTHING we can do to improve ourselves. We have no power in ourselves to fix ourselves, no matter how positive we think or how much we *believe* for it.
We’re not called to fix ourselves up with God’s help, but to die to self and be transformed and conformed to the image of Christ.
Just because Osteen makes people feel good, doesn’t mean he’s right.
It is God operating through anyone speaking of the gospel who leads them to, or along, this path of salvation.
The best thing we can do if we would share the gospel is to find God’s sweet spot in it for the occasion. That will vary from occasion to occasion but will never be incorrect theology. It will not be Ph.D. complete but that does not matter.
Halloween has just passed. I think this is a “holiday” of much truth. Not that the fantasy ghosts, witches, and goblins have any real existence, but that it figuratively illustrates the ugly state in which humanity now exists, even the “best” of all of us. It is fitting that it should resolve in All Saints Day.