iMonk writes a great essay in response to the 60 minutes interview with Joel Osteen. My favorite line from it: "Osteen is a Gospel preacher like Col. Sanders is an army officer."
What was most shocking to me (that iMonk doesn't mention) was Osteen's confession that he is not qualified to unpack the scriptures. He said that there are far more men out there that are way more qualified than he is to do that. How tragic this really is that this would come out of the mouth of the pastor of the largest "church" (if we can call it that) in America. He just wants to give people "hope" he says. But where is hope found?
Romans 15:4 seems to speak to this: For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Seems like being able to handle the Word rightly is a rather important issue in terms of giving people hope...
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