[Gamecock]

Cotton Candy “Christianity" Accomplishments Agreement with yourself Bad habits Bigger and better Agreement with yourself Bad habits Bigger and better Blanket of love Can-do power Champion Change Dream another dream Energy and vitality Expect and focus Goals Inner strength Obstacles Progress Feel your second wind Step up to a new level Stretch and grow Wrong mindset Your actions Your future

Historical-Biblical Christianity Salvation Union with Christ Yoke of bondage Holiness of God By grace through faith Propitiation Sinner Justification Death through Adam Fear and trembling Confess sin Sanctification Word become flesh Temptations Repentance Second Coming Wisdom of this world Trust and obey Imputation of righteousness Death on a cross Eternal life

[MeshugeMikey]

Amen! Joel thinks the whitehorse Inn is at the racetrack

[GeronL]

Quicken Loans Arena is not private property

[GeronL]

great article

[KoRn]

I could be very wrong, but to me, that guy comes off as being like a crooked lawyer(I know that’s redundant) or the used car salesman type. I wouldn’t trust him any further than I could throw him.

[SoConPubbie]

Great comparison there with your lists Gamecock.

Might I also add, that the sad truth is that you need to add Eternal Death or Hell to the Cotton Candy “Christianity” list, as those who live by that fake Christianity will not make Heaven.

There is no Salvation in Cotton Candy “Christianity”, and where there is no Salvation, there is no Heaven.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

His version of “hope” mirrors our dear leader’s pathetic version......

My Hope is in Christ!

[Gamecock]

When I returned home, a bit exhausted, I sat down and turned on the television. A few channels into surfing, I stumbled upon Family Feud. I watched three or four survey questions, and five or six attempts to guess the top responses for each. Each time, regardless of the quality of the guess, family members shouted “Good answer, good answer.” Even when the answer was an obviously bad answer, a decidedly miserable answer, the participants wishfully chanted, “Good answer, good answer.” And it hit me just how much like Family Feud is the spectacle of Joel Osteen and his misguided followers: “Good answer, good answer.”

Make no mistake: A good answer is not the Good News.

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[cuban leaf]

So do the math: 15 bibles, 1,250 passers by. That’s 1.25% Bible-carrying Osteenites.

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I’m with this guy regarding Osteen, but my cell phone has a bible on it. It also is my connection to Blueletterbible, biblegateway and Biblehub. I’ve not cracked a real paper bible in years. I have a couple. If our tech ever collapses I’ll go back to the old fashioned way.

[WKB]

Baptist FYI if you’re interested,I’m an Olsteam fan ping

[do the dhue]

Olsteen said Obama is a Christian and is doing a good job. I don't know Barack Hussein Obama’s heart, but I can tell you that I don't think he is doing a good job. And if Olsteen would mislead the people with his opine of Obama’s job, then in what other ways may he mislead his flock?

[AlbertWang]

I don’t disagree with you about Joel, however, might I suggest that the historical list includes:
Love
Compassion
Pray for enemies
Salvation
Redemption
Faith
Hope
Forgiveness

[agrarianlady]

“Cotton Candy Christianity” is a very nice way to put it.

What it is is damnable heresy.

It’s terrifying to think of what will become of this man when he has to answer to God. I need to pray about this. I didn’t realize the reach he had - just checking out his facebook page and friends who’ve “liked” him made me really sad. Thankfully it’s only two, but that’s two too many.

[Gamecock]

The Real Osteen Ping!

[Gamecock]

Osteen Ping!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I carry a Bible. But I put it in my purse.

My husband does not, he shares mine.

Out of the rest of the family, Mom carries a purse Bible as well. Dad carries an IPad with Bibles in various languages and translations ditto brother, the rest follow along on their smart phones.

So you would not see any of us carrying Bibles as we walked in yet we would all have access to one during the service.

Conclusions, jump not to them.

[Alex Murphy]

On Friday, July 13, 2012, Joel Osteen made an appearance in Cleveland, Ohio. Fourteen thousand people filed into Quicken Loans Arena that evening to take in “A Night of Hope”....I had decided to take note of two phenomena: (1) the number of people I saw toting Bibles (those prepared to say, “This is my Bible…”), and (2) the number of people who stopped to engage in a more in-depth conversation....Let me here report the results:

15 bibles, 1,250 passers by. That’s 1.25% Bible-carrying Osteenites.

I wonder how many of those fifteen were the Joel Osteen Bible. A "red letter version" of a paraphrased translation is an oxymoron IMO:

[PoloSec]

There are many multitudes of Joel Osteen's...(Ro 16:18)

For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

[Iscool]

I watched the end of a Joel Osteen program the other day...At the end of the program Osteen gave out the typical Protestant plan of salvation and encouraged the tv watchers to find a good bible believing church in their area...

My question is; would these people at Osteen’s church attend another church if he quit???

In my experience, all the different personalities out there respond to different kinds of preaching...I’m sure God doesn’t take all preachers and turn them into robots or drones...Some people will respond to a tack-hammer type of preaching and others will respond to a jack-hammer style...

Perhaps Osteen’s church has a large turnover and people move on to churches where they get a little meat as opposed to all milk...