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Will the real Joel Osteen please stand up?
Examiner ^ | 10-28-14 | Jesse Broadt

Posted on 10/30/2014 7:57:20 AM PDT by fishtank

Will the real Joel Osteen please stand up?

October 28, 2014

Joel Osteen, Pastor of the biggest congregation in America, Lakewood Church, appears to be an Obama fan, despite the fact that Obama's agenda goes against everything true Christians believe. Those of us who are intelligent and observant were not really surprised, as we have known for a long time that Osteen's “I'm okay, you're okay” milk toast sermons are far from Bible-based and do not reflect in any way the beliefs of his father, John Osteen, who started Lakewood Church and preached the uncompromising message of Christ for multiple decades before his death in 1999. Joel Osteen, however he may have started out, is currently nothing more than a progressive in Christian's clothing.

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TOPICS: Apologetics; Current Events; General Discusssion; Other Christian
KEYWORDS: christians; heretic; megachurch; osteen; pastor; ybpdln
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To: fishtank

1. He is an obola fan...
Therefore he is total slimmy scum, vile low life POS that slithers thru life ripping off people!

PS: His followers are EXACTLY like the fools that followed Jim Jones..
No Apologies!


21 posted on 10/30/2014 8:56:44 AM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: fishtank

He’s proof that PT Barnum was right.


22 posted on 10/30/2014 8:59:04 AM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: Gamecock

How anyone gives money to this man living in a $10,000,000+ home is hard for me to figure.


23 posted on 10/30/2014 8:59:24 AM PDT by boycott
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To: boycott

I am a firm believer that a local church should support her minister so they can live at the same level as the average member.

Granted Osteen doesn’t get a salary from Lakewood, but he is just flaunting it in everyone’s face, IMHO.


24 posted on 10/30/2014 9:02:47 AM PDT by Gamecock (USA, Ret. 27 years.)
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To: Gamecock

“Prosperity Gospel” is very of this world. Jesus isn’t of this world.


25 posted on 10/30/2014 9:08:27 AM PDT by boycott
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To: fishtank

26 posted on 10/30/2014 9:10:30 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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To: fishtank

Lot of jealousy on this thread...


27 posted on 10/30/2014 9:32:15 AM PDT by Finalapproach29er (luke 6:38)
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To: Finalapproach29er
I worry about what people are doing to themselves with the sentiments they express on these Osteen threads.

Osteen isn't hurt in any way by their criticisms and judgments, but the posters themselves?

Yikes...

28 posted on 10/30/2014 9:55:00 AM PDT by GBA (Can we play follow the Leader now instead of follow the lemming?)
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To: Gamecock

There’s a “real” Joel Osteen?


29 posted on 10/30/2014 9:55:30 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Finalapproach29er

Not a lick.


30 posted on 10/30/2014 10:04:25 AM PDT by Gamecock (USA, Ret. 27 years.)
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To: fishtank

Hint: Joel Osteen is not a real person.


31 posted on 10/30/2014 10:04:54 AM PDT by CityCenter (Resist Obamacare!)
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To: Alex Murphy

Yup.

Real fake.


32 posted on 10/30/2014 10:09:41 AM PDT by Gamecock (USA, Ret. 27 years.)
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To: Finalapproach29er

Really?

Jealous?

How about furious in my case?

The Osteen heretic is a fraud, a con artist, a thief. He preys upon the gullible. He is no different than a cheap casino on the backside of the Vegas strip.


33 posted on 10/30/2014 11:58:25 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: fishtank

Osteen isn’t a Christian.


34 posted on 10/30/2014 12:50:25 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: fishtank

Are you Jesus Jr.? Give me the name of someone pure and acceptable to you.

Osteen regularly recounts the story that he was only a TV producer until his dad died. He points people to Jesus but choses to use tactics like honey instead of vinegar.

Didn’t Jesus once say anyone who is not against us is for us?


35 posted on 10/30/2014 2:04:57 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (luke 6:38)
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To: Finalapproach29er
He points people to Jesus but choses to use tactics like honey instead of vinegar.

He points people in on themselves. He is a wolf in sheeps clothing.

Give me the name of someone pure and acceptable to you.

No one is "pure." But you want names? Sproul, Horton, Keller, Ferguson, The late D. James Kennedy. Graham (both of them) Is that enough?

36 posted on 10/30/2014 2:12:25 PM PDT by Gamecock (USA, Ret. 27 years.)
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To: GBA
Rather than post my thought of the moment, perhaps a reminder to self would be better:
These six [things] doth the Lord hate: yea, seven [are] an abomination unto him:
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
A heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
A false witness [that] speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
--Proverbs 6:16-19
Forgive me for my trespasses, Father, I so often know not what I do.
37 posted on 10/30/2014 3:12:18 PM PDT by GBA (Can we play follow the Leader now instead of follow the lemming?)
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To: fishtank

Well, it’s hardly an opinion that JOEL Osteen is a fraud.


38 posted on 10/30/2014 3:24:15 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Gamecock
I have done my best to get Vision to stop posting these post but to no avail. I tried to shame him, ridicule him, and show him the errors of his way. He still continues to post Osteen email causing more division between Believers. This will someday be on his head.
39 posted on 10/30/2014 3:39:28 PM PDT by longhorn too
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To: longhorn too

Or yours. Why don’t you just let go and let God...why are you so interested in stopping a man who encourages people to do their best. I find that very weird. Osteen is none of your business, and tearing down anyone (Pastor or not) is not godly, and reflects badly on you...not the one you are judging.

“Judge NOT lest you also be judged”.


40 posted on 10/30/2014 3:43:20 PM PDT by Kackikat (Two wrongs do NOT make a right.... unless you are a Democrat!)
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