Many of my friends have seen this as a group on my facebook page, but I thought I would post it here. I was joking around with my pastor about how I was leaving our church to go to Joel Osteen’s church. Of course I was completely joking, but it expanded into us joking a lot with each other. If you don’t know about Joel Osteen, he is arguably the most influential Evangelical Christian on the planet, which is extremely unfortunate. Now if you remember my last post, it talked about my grace for people who I think are somewhat off the mark. However, Joel Osteen simply preaches that having a positive attitude will change your course in life and then randomly throws some Bible verses (that are of course out of context) in there. A lot of what he says is true, and I think that positive energy is great. However, Osteen claims that all paths can lead to heaven (see John 14:6) and never talks about hell. Now I appreciate that Osteen is not out there trying to scare people into salvation, Read More
