The gospel is the good news that sinners can be made right with God through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Your Best Life Now is missing the thing that real Christianity has: the gospel. These things, by themselves, are not necessarily Christian. This is what it means to be Christian, right? It offers a relentless pursuit of happiness and an inspiring plea for good deeds. I mean, the book has frequent mentions of God and the Bible. This probably sounds strange, even impossible, to some. And this gets at my real frustration with the book: Your Best Life Now, though it fashions itself as a Christian book, is not. Neither of these- alone-makes a person a Christian. And all of us know people who believe in the supernatural. However, all of us know people who speak well of their father. He can do what human beings cannot do” (p. “He is not limited to the laws of nature. “We serve a supernatural God,” he writes.
I also appreciated Osteen’s belief in the supernatural our culture is losing this. At one point, I even teared up as Joel recounted the last time he saw his father alive (pp. For one, I appreciate Joel’s repeated expressions of affection for his father, the late John Osteen to whom the book is dedicated. But before I do, I’ll say that in Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential, I actually appreciate several things.
I’ll point out some better ones in a minute. I think these are poor reasons to not like the guy. Some of those who don’t like him do so because he smiles a lot and has a huge church (I mean, huuge!). Yet for all this popularity, lots of people don’t like him. And he has almost 4.5 million followers on Twitter. He even has his own Sirius radio station that plays 48 sermons a day (Channel 128, if you’re interested). His sermons are broadcast all over the world. Joel Osteen is the pastor of Lakewood Baptist Church in Huston, Texas. Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential.
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