Joel osteen book i declare photos
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My break-up with Joel happened about two years ago. And while in the very beginning of my spiritual journey when I began seeking speakers and authors who preach creative manifestation, I used to listen to Joel Osteen, I stopped when I learned that he was against homosexuality. all of whom-that I am aware of- do not preach to be a member of any organized religion. Esther Hicks, Wayne Dyer, Gregg Braden, Byron Katie. I follow many of the positive thinkers, i.e. This is the horribly damaging aspect of this kind of teaching - in their most vulnerable moments, people will be stripped of the comfort of the gospel and instead told that if only they had more faith, they would be healed or restored.). (My reflection: The bitter end of this path must be that if anyone is not experiencing God's blessing, the fault is within themselves. The gospel, in its declaration that God has decisively and completely done everything necessary in Christ to ensure our eternal blessing, is quite absent. The book's basic message: "You must do all this (persevere in speaking blessing into existence, etc etc) in order for God to bless you." God's blessing is thus dependent on human performance, rather than on God's sovereign grace. The other-focused chapters were ok, focused encouraging and building others up. It's not hard to see why Osteen's message is so alluring - all that you dream of can be yours!! Whatever we desire, God will give us, as we speak it into existence. Osteen universally assumes that our dreams equal God's plan for us. My favourite outlandishly ridiculous interpretation: God anointing David's head with oil (Psalm 23) means that our lives are meant to smooth and easy, because oil is a lubricant that makes things flow. Some obvious & basic errors - incorrect verses quoted, translations wrongly attributed or perhaps altered, errors in basic definitions etc. The Christian's experience of blessing after death is not mentioned at all in the book, replaced by the view that life now can and should be like heaven. Multiple verses were blithely misapplied in this manner, taken from passages which explicitly describe promises of blessing after death or Christ's return. Osteen's underlying theological approach seems to be to take the biblical promises of the blessings which Christians will experience after Christ's return and apply them to life now. A summary statement from the conclusion: "There is nothing more powerful than you declaring victory over your life" (169). Many of the 31 declarations are phrased almost in a horoscope style, with a magical/mystical flavour. This was apparent with only a moment's reflection, or a brief check on the verse in context. More than half of the biblical passages quoted were quite clearly misinterpreted or wrongly applied. I do object to the way he coopts and distorts the Christian message to make it a vehicle for these motivational messages.
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I don't particularly object to Osteen's 'positive thinking' approach, and some of his "be positive" encouragements are fine. Here are my notes: - More I think it's fair to say that I was a little shocked by this book - I was not prepared for the outlandish extravagance of Joel Osteen's rejection of biblical Christianity! Error, layered on top of error, layered on top of error. I think it's fair to say that I was a little shocked by this book - I was not prepared for the outlandish extravagance of Joel Osteen's rejection of biblical Christianity! Error, layered on top of error, layered on top of error.