Posted on 02/28/2015 3:37:49 PM PST by Gamecock
Who is watching Joel Osteen? Not I! But he does amaze me. How can he preach on the exact same topic every Sunday--"God wants me to be better"--and, yet make it seem different?
When it comes to Christian media, and who accesses it, the numbers are revealing. Who Is Watching TV or Listening to Christian Radio?
Only 8% of Americans admit to watching Christian television regularly--I'll bet the demographics here are interesting. Probably older women with blue hair, who live below the Mason-Dixon line, and east of Mississippi.
24% watch Christian TV "sometimes," 27% "rarely," and 40% "never."
Christian radio fares a tad worse. 10% listen "regularly," 17% "sometimes," 19% "rarely," 52% "never."
Podcast numbers are low (the media is new). 4% "regularly," 10% "sometimes," 11% "rarely," 72% "never."
The numbers also show that
67 percent of Americans never or rarely watch Christian-based programming on television. Those who do watch at least sometimes are overwhelmingly self-identified evangelicals (69 percent) and weekly churchgoers (62 percent).
71 percent never or rarely listen to Christian radio. Those who do are similar to the Christian TV crowd — 67 percent are evangelicals and 57 percent are weekly churchgoers.
84 percent of Americans never or rarely listen to Christian-themed podcasts. Books and movies fared slightly better: 33 percent said they at least sometimes read Christian-based books. And 40 percent report seeing a Christian movie in the last year.
No Satan either.
I wouldn’t have much problem with the fallen angel view, if it weren’t for what the whackos “itching ears” crowd does with it.
Agreed
Thanks! I learn something new every day.... then go to sleep at night and forget most of what I know.
I was afraid that it might me my Lodge's secret code word and I'd missed our annual meeting - once again. :-)
Interesting
never watch Christian TV..a huge waste of time
Christian radio?? When I am in the car during the day ..usually Christian music stations
Pod casts ? yea sometimes.. certain pastors I like I will listen
LOL...I remember him too
I suspect this guy is a freeper. http://www.sermonaudio.com/search.asp?SourceOnly=true&currSection=sermonssource&keyword=mvbbc
Chris taught me to really listen to preachers a good lesson..listen sometimes
James white sometimes.. WH Innn sometimes
The KKK used to preach that blacks were the descendants of Ham and therefore permitted to keep as slaves
“So, give me another plan God.”
Where were you when He formed the Heavens and the Earth?
All the people that I know who watch Osteen are not attending church. They usually have some excuse related to worship not being about them.
He can make one feel good about pretending to be a Christian.
***They usually have some excuse related to worship not being about them.***
It’s not. Or shouldn’t be anyway.
In Heaven?
Mormon?
Catholic
Catholics believe in preexistence of the soul?
The soul is the only real thing. The body is temporary.
we are resurrected into bodies.
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