“Life Coach” Joel Osteen and his wife speak out on Larry King Live, providing mostly that same sound advice you could get from any good motivational speaker with an occasional “Christian” cliche about using YOUR faith or how “God will see you through”. Even when Larry King served up opportunities for the Osteens to inject sound doctrine or take a solid stand on Scripture, they smilingly dodged the challenges. You can see a clip here.
With the size of the ‘congregation’ at their ‘church’, one might wonder the impact for the Gospel Osteen could have if his ‘sermons’ actually contained the substance of the Gospel and sound Biblical doctrine!
The Battle Cry 
Joel Osteen is appealing to people who are looking for peace. But his is a “Happiness Cult” based on the premise that God exists to make me happy. Did you notice in his answers to Larry King, he kept repeating the same thing: don’t worry; be happy! According to the Happiness theology, waking up everyday and thinking about something we are thankful for is the answer.
How do you suppose that remedy plays out in Darfur where a mother holds her child who is dying due to malnutrition and dysentery? If the answer is only to be found in having a cheerful perspective, then she is indeed in trouble. As are we all. Good thoughts will not save us in these perilous times. We must be like Job who says “even if God slays me, I will serve Him.” The prophet Isaiah said in the latter days, the false prophets will say “peace, peace” when there is no peace.
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Greg,
Good comment!
I’ve heard it said that if you can’t preach it EVERYWHERE, don’t preach it ANYWHERE!
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