His weekly sermon broadcast hits the television screens of over seven million Americans each week.

His church is the largest mega church in North America. His sermons are eerily akin to positive, inspirational talks they are pseudo-sermons, something far short of the full proclamation of the gospel.īut Joel Osteen’s reach is undeniable. His gospel is dangerously thin, lacking healthy doses of some pretty fundamental things like sin and repentance. Maybe not to the extent of those who wear a suit and tie, name tags, and go knocking door to door but not too far from it. In the eyes of the overwhelming majority of the evangelical world Osteen is prodigal. Joel Osteen is neither a person I would typically want to associate myself with in ministry, nor a person from whom I want others learning too much. To the many who regularly call us, looking for that church, looking for that man, I tend to be clear that our community is different: this is a Methodist church, we are not located in the former home of the NBA’s Houston Rockets, and Lakewood was our name long before it was his…please feel free to visit us, you are welcome here!Īs is evident, I am fairly defensive about this. Yes, Lakewood is also the name of another Houston church pastored by the famed Joel Osteen, but no, this is not his church.

I am a pastor serving temporarily at Lakewood Church in Houston Texas.

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