Comments on: More Wisdom from a Dead Guy: Richard Niebuhr on "Osteenism"

By: Billy Birch

Billy Birch — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:21:12 +0000

I placed the above comment in the wrong post. I’m sorry. This belonged to the Warren Throckmorton request for prayer.

By: Billy Birch

Billy Birch — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:18:31 +0000

Thank you so much for informing us! I had no idea. I will be praying. Though I never comment here, I read you faithfully. So I took this time out to comment. God bless.

By: Shane Ryans

Shane Ryans — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:44:47 +0000

Thanks for the great review and suggestion i will check it out.

By: Byron

Byron — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:34:20 +0000

In reply to Esdraelon.

I would only add that, while none of us can claim to “know the Word completely”–or anything close to it, IMHO–I am entirely sure how I feel about someone such as Osteen preaching it (and it isn’t “comfortable”!).

By: Esdraelon

Esdraelon — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:10:18 +0000

Joel Osteen only attended Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma for a two year period without receiving a degree. Now something doesn’t seem quite right about this. Why can a man with virtually no higher level training in religious matters or Bible studies waltz onto a stage in hundreds of stadiums and speak on the matter? Why does a man with no qualifications have such a great following? (Osteen receives around seven million viewers world wide through his televised sermons.) I’m not entirely sure whether or not I feel comfortable with someone preaching the word of God, if they don’t know the word of God.

http://truedsicernment.com/2012/03/19/but-pastor-osteen-where-is-jesus/

Osteen does not preach about sin, he preaches about God’s ‘goodness’, failing to note that God is also a God of righteousness and judgement.Everyone wants the ‘feel good’ message by a ‘feel good’ ‘pastor’ leaving leaving out the reality of sin. Osteen obviously feels he is doing Gods work, but personally I feel one should weigh in the balance his message as pertaining to those he ‘reaches’ and those he ‘deceives’ (which is basically all of them) who never receive the ‘true’ message of the Word of God. Personally I believe , all things considered, he is doing the work of Satan. His ‘lie’ is to preach only a ‘feel good’ motivational message while leaving out the true message of Calvary.