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Re: The Other General Conference in Houston 9.13-1
Not long before John Osteen died I was at a National Religous Broadcasters convention and was speaking with one of the top Christian film director / producers in the Nation. He had been working with the Osteens on some projects and was telling me how Joel loved being the behind the scenes guy, that he was shy and did not want to be onstage at all.
Ironically it was not long after that conversation that John died and Joel was forced to decide whether or not to take up the public reigns or let the ministry evolve into something else or fade away.
I have only seen him a few times on TV and while it was very lightweight material (much like his book) like others I have heard that the full services at his church have much more meat in them. I have never been so don't know.
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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