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&#;Staying in His Lane&#; &#; Joel Osteen&#;s Gospel of Affirmation Without Salvation
Joel Osteen was back on CNN this week, appearing Thursday morning on &#;Starting Point with Soledad O&#;Brien.&#; Osteen&#;s new manual, I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life, recently hit the nation&#;s bookstores.
Osteen&#;s positive thinking theology was on complete display in the interview, as in the book. O&#;Brien asked if he really believes that speaking declarations out loud can make them come true. Osteen assured her that he does, promising that speaking positive words can bring positive results and warning that speaking negativity will bring negative results. &#;I don&#;t think there&#;s anything magic about it, but those words leave out and come right assist in and affect your possess self-image.&#;
In the book itself, Osteen asserts, &#;You&#;ve got to deliver your words out in the direction you want your existence to go.&#; The theme of his book is simple: &#;With our words we can either bless our futures or we can curse our futures.&#;
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The Osteen Moment &#; Your Own Moment Will Show up Soon Enough
Joel Osteen didn&#;t get where he is today by staking out controversial positions on biblical and moral issues. America&#;s prophet of Your Leading Life Now built his reputation and his international following on an updated version of prosperity theology, laced with ample doses of pop psychology. The ever-smiling and effervescent pastor of America&#;s largest congregation has done his leading to avoid association with doctrinal matters. More to the point &#; he has done his foremost to avoid talking about sin.
Osteen would rather present platitudes about attitudes. &#;God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner,&#; he asserts. Talking in any detail about sin would be to insert negativity into his relentlessly upbeat message.
But now, Osteen finds himself in the midst of controversy. Last night, Joel and Victoria Osteen appeared together on CNN&#;s Piers Morgan Tonight and, boxed in by Morgan, Joel Osteen reluctantly confessed that he believes homosexuality to be a sin.
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Joel Osteen Talks Preaching Sin, Materialism, and Gay Marriage
By Nicola Menzie, Christian Post Reporter
Joel Osteen, megachurch pastor and New York Times best-selling writer, was pressed during a recent interview about his stance on homosexuality and asked if he would ever approach out in assist of same-sex marriage. The Texas minister, who leads America's largest congregation, explained that he refuses to "harp" on such issues and was "for everybody."
In his appearance on "Katie" this week, the Break Out! author was asked to state his core message in a nugget, which the Lakewood Church pastor said was that "God is fine, He's for you, He's on your side."
"When you deposit your trust in Him, even when you have complex times, you can rise higher. You can excel, you can be leaders. It's an empowering message, not one that pushes people down," he added.
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Host Katie Couric suggested that the popular minister does not "spend
By Becky Garrison
When Oprah Winfrey questioned megachurch pastor and best-selling author Joel Osteen on the topic of “homosexuality,” he stated that “homosexuality is a sin.” To Osteen’s credit, he didn’t go as far as purpose-driven megachurch pastor Rick Warren by equating homosexuality with incest or repeat the Family Investigate Council’s incorrect assertion that homosexuality breeds pedophilia. Apparently in Osteen’s happy-happy-joy-joy worldview, homosexuality doesn’t represent a bigger sin than exclaim lying or anger. Also, he believes that gays who seek forgiveness can enter heaven.
Fallen megachurch pastor Ted Haggard adopts a slightly more merciful stance. Even though he doesn’t call homosexuality a sin, Haggard still upholds the view that marriage should be between a guy and a woman. Hipster best-selling author and former pastor Rob Bell skirts the question altogether, noting that only those with gay friends are positioned to judge homosexuality. In tackling this topic, Haggard and Bell adopt the position found in gradual evangelical circles where one might profess to