Comments on: Your Best Dog-Licked-Sores Life Now

By: JFN

JFN — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:31:09 +0000

Dan,
You are on the mark once again. And yes, some of us are out hear preaching this message, and all too often (as has been the case in one of the churches I pastor), we lose people because of it. There are two churches in the area that are fast becoming mouth pieces of the Osteen prattle, and they have folks coming in bunches. Meanwhile, the same churches are never present to help with the needs of the hungry through the local food banks, etc.
Sad state of affairs, however, we can be sure the Gospel will prevail.

Thanks Dan for all you do! Your vigilance in inspiring!
jim

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:41:51 +0000

Copeland was in Little Rock, AR, a few weeks back, speaking at the church that owns the local Christian broadcast channel, which of course carries his program. The statewide daily paper did a big article on him and the Grassley investigation. I read stuff like that, then compare it to “Crazy Love” by Francis Chan, which instead of telling me that I deserve a bigger house because I’m a child of the King, asks me to consider downsizing and reducing my mortgage payment so we can give more money away to advance God’s kingdom. The difference is like night and day.

By: Greg Mazunik

Greg Mazunik — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:29:37 +0000

That’s assuming that all of the pastors actually preach through sections of Scripture! I’m thinking mainly of Osteen on this point. The several times that I’ve watched his half-hour on TV, it’s a motivational speech scattered with out of context verses from translations that have been massaged to fit what he wants to say. I remember one time he “quoted” Ephesians. I wasn’t familiar with that verse saying that, so I looked it up in several versions (ESV, NIV, NET, even the Message)…it was wildly different from all of them! I wish I could remember exactly how far off it was.

Your main point of your post is spot on, though. Well said.