Horton on Joel Osteen

Joel Osteen is a new type of prosperity teacher, one who has taken the hokey antics of a former generation of the Word-Faith movement, stripped them away, and taken his message mainstream. Because of this approach, normally discerning evangelicals have let his program come into their homes and thinking because at first glance it does not appear to be the same thing as the old Word-Faith teaching. Some of my own parishioners regularly watch him on TV, seemingly unaware that the God he preaches is not the one of the Bible or classic Christianity. Michael S. Horton has written a helpful article that demonstrates key problems in Osteen's theology. Check it out.