And likewise, have you personally interacted with Osteen enough to determine without a doubt that he is NOT a charlatan?
Are you saying that if someone accepts Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord at the end of an Osteen sermon that it isn’t valid?
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. As no one knows the heart, it's impossible to tell. Osteen doesn't even have enough backbone to state on TV that Jesus is the only way to God.
Even Benny Hinn had problems with that and while I am no fan of Hinn, he was right on about Osteen. First time I can ever recall agreeing with him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCQfTemtApQ
FWIW, I am suspicious of ALL prosperity gospel preachers and mega church pastors.
By their standards, Paul was a loser with weak faith and got it all wrong.
2 Corinthians 12:7-10 So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Don’t give a rats patootie, I simply do not like the way Olsteen preaches/looks or whatever. He reminds me of a sleazy used car salesman.