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Originally Posted by CC1
I think Joel did a very poor job of trying to express that we are witnesses, not judges.
I agree with him that it is God who will judge every human being and not us BUT he also should have not embraced fully and without qualification the scripture that says Jesus is the only way.
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Joel Osteen is a great disappointment. He doesn't have the convictions of even a Baptist like Franklin Graham. Either we believe Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, or we don't! He says he doesn't want to judge. He just wants to tell folks the truth, yet he's not willing to tell the truth to Larry King.
An Elder recently said to me after I had preached what he thought was too strong a message,
"We don't need to be told what's wrong with us. We just need someone to preach messages that will make us feel good." Joel Osteen is one who specializes in this.
I will repeat what I have said to this Elder and others. Let's say you have a terminal illness, but the doctor examining you doesn't have the courage to tell you the truth. So, instead he tells you that having examined you he is pleased to inform you that you have excellent hearing, a strong heart, and healthy lungs and sends you away feeling good about your physical health, although you still have some unexplained internal pain.
You decide to get a second opinion and this doctor confirms that you have excellent hearing, a strong heart, and healthy lungs, but you have pancreatic cancer and only six months to live. Which doctor truly cared about you? The one who told you only the "good news" or the one who told you the truth?
We need to be committed to telling the truth regardless of the awkwardness of doing so.
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