Wednesday, October 8, 2008

This is Not the gospel

Joel Osteen is constantly telling his listeners those things they want to hear NOT what they need to hear. Osteen presently pastors the largest church in America. If you want to know the steady diet of preaching then here is a clip that well summarizes what Osteen believes. As you listen to this sound clip read carefully these words from the apostle Paul in 2 Timothy.
2Tim. 3:1 ¶ But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2Tim. 3:2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
2Tim. 3:3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
2Tim. 3:4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
2Tim. 3:5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.

2Tim. 4:2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.
2Tim. 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,

Joel Osteen - "tickling the ears"







It may help to hear a response to this kind of preaching from a well known pastor and theologian.
Dr. John Piper who is known for powerful gospel preaching has a Biblical take on the health, wealth and prosperity gospel that Joel Osteen espouses.
John Piper - Dangers of prosperity gospel