But if you believe, with the Apostle Paul, that "godliness with contentment is great gain" (1 Tim. Nevertheless, here is my view in a nutshell: If you want to read a book in which discontentment is encouraged, a book that shows God to be powerless apart from your power-filled thoughts and words, a book in which sin is minimized and renamed in every conceivable way, and a supposedly Christian book that gives only trivial mention to Jesus Christ, Your Best Life Now is the book for you. And if that were not enough to dissuade me from taking issue with Osteen’s teaching, who in his right mind would want to argue with karate-man Chuck Norris, who also commends Osteen’s book? Joel Osteen’s book, Your Best Life Now, is even endorsed by well-known Christian leaders like Max Lucado and Pat Robertson. Certainly (one might assume) a man with this incredible following must be on the right track. Millions more tune in to his national and international television broadcasts. Thirty-thousand adults attend Joel Osteen’s church every Sunday. It may seem foolish to disagree theologically with the man who pastors the largest congregation in America. Osteen, Joel, Your Best Life Now, New York, Warner Faith Publishers, 2004.
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