Have you noticed he preaches with his eyes closed, every now and then he peeks just to see if anyone is still sitting there listening to his bull shît.
They hold services in the building that used to be the home of the Houston Rockets. They spent about a hundred million dollars renovating the building into their church home. He’s pretty popular down there. They have about 6 services a week and average over 50,000 worshippers/attendees a week. I’ve trmied to watch the guy, but he just doesn’t do it for me. Same with trying to read one of his books. It just ain’t there, for me. But he clearly does something good for many, many thousands of people on a regular basis. I’ve seen his house in the River Oaks section of Houston. It’s pretty flippin’ nice.
Any "Church" that has $ 100 million needs to reassess their mission if all that was spent on renovating a building.
$90 mil of it might have had a higher purpose helping others and if you can't build a nice enough "House of Worship" for $10 mil, perhaps it's not a "House of Worship" but a measure of one's grandiosity.
And folks wonder why some of us choose to worship outdoors, in the mountains, forests, prairies and waterways.
Sheesh, hold into the feathering of thy nests.
Down here in the dirty south,
You don’t have a church til you have a “family life center” aka a gym.
got to have FLC for the Upwards Basketball and Wild Game Supper, and Gospel-Bluegrass Fish Fry Hoedown
Have you noticed he preaches with his eyes closed, every now and then he peeks just to see if anyone is still sitting there listening to his bull shît.
They hold services in the building that used to be the home of the Houston Rockets. They spent about a hundred million dollars renovating the building into their church home. He’s pretty popular down there. They have about 6 services a week and average over 50,000 worshippers/attendees a week. I’ve trmied to watch the guy, but he just doesn’t do it for me. Same with trying to read one of his books. It just ain’t there, for me. But he clearly does something good for many, many thousands of people on a regular basis. I’ve seen his house in the River Oaks section of Houston. It’s pretty flippin’ nice.
Any "Church" that has $ 100 million needs to reassess their mission if all that was spent on renovating a building.
$90 mil of it might have had a higher purpose helping others and if you can't build a nice enough "House of Worship" for $10 mil, perhaps it's not a "House of Worship" but a measure of one's grandiosity.
And folks wonder why some of us choose to worship outdoors, in the mountains, forests, prairies and waterways.
Sheesh, hold into the feathering of thy nests.
Down here in the dirty south,
You don’t have a church til you have a “family life center” aka a gym.
got to have FLC for the Upwards Basketball and Wild Game Supper, and Gospel-Bluegrass Fish Fry Hoedown
If'n they gots the good hush puppies at that fish fry, I'm in for two dinners.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
I've mentioned it many times before relating to religious threads on this board. When people get involved, in anything, it becomes a convoluted, screwed up mess. It's a real turnoff for many that are actually seeking the Truth, and it's a sad reality. God judges the heart, and is the only One who can do so. Man cannot.
It is irrelevant what you think. What matters is the TRUTH.
It's a message that lots of people "want" to hear, but big numbers doesn't make his message right. Sunday Night Football gets big numbers as well.
”Sunday Night Football” likely doesn’t do people some good on the inside, and it likely doesn’t motivate them to make their lives better...and to get cleaned up and go to work and become productive and take care of their families and become better people, etc....
Good works won't get you anywhere.
It's true salvation comes before good works but good works keep a man where he is supposed to be.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.Ep 2:10
We may know the time Ben Carson lied, but does anyone know the time Hillary Clinton told the truth?
Immersing oneself in progressive lieberalism is no different than bathing in the sewage of Hell.
I've mentioned it many times before relating to religious threads on this board. When people get involved, in anything, it becomes a convoluted, screwed up mess. It's a real turnoff for many that are actually seeking the Truth, and it's a sad reality. God judges the heart, and is the only One who can do so. Man cannot.
Yep. And no matter how much good a particular entity might do, they aren’t perfect, and there will still be many who find fault with them. If Jesus Himself showed up again teaching the same things He taught 2000 years ago, He’d be criticized by many (just like He was ‘then’). And much of the criticism would likely come from ‘religious’ people (just like it was ‘then’).
That Copeland video JeffP posted up there got me to thinking. Seems he needs a private plane to do the Lord's work.
I wonder if Jesus used a private donkey to do his Father's work?
That was Jesse Duplantis. His conversation with Copeland about needing a jet is priceless
And folks believe that.
Free country and free to believe what one wants to believe.
I guess if I was of the type where the Spirit moved me to jump up outa my seat and have a conversation with God, I'd need a private plane too.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
I've mentioned it many times before relating to religious threads on this board. When people get involved, in anything, it becomes a convoluted, screwed up mess. It's a real turnoff for many that are actually seeking the Truth, and it's a sad reality. God judges the heart, and is the only One who can do so. Man cannot.
Yep. And no matter how much good a particular entity might do, they aren’t perfect, and there will still be many who find fault with them. If Jesus Himself showed up again teaching the same things He taught 2000 years ago, He’d be criticized by many (just like He was ‘then’). And much of the criticism would likely come from ‘religious’ people (just like it was ‘then’).
Gee, ya think?
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
I've mentioned it many times before relating to religious threads on this board. When people get involved, in anything, it becomes a convoluted, screwed up mess. It's a real turnoff for many that are actually seeking the Truth, and it's a sad reality. God judges the heart, and is the only One who can do so. Man cannot.
Good works won't get you anywhere. I agree that they don’t get one into an eternity with God. But the above things most definitely makes one’s life ‘here’ better, and they also make one’s loved ones lives better too.
You know the problem. These folks think that if they do what Osteen says, they are eternally saved. Heaven forbid they read the Bible and test the teaching. I bet 90%+ of the congregation have never cracked a Bible.
Colossians 3:17 (New King James Version) "And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him."