Joel Osteen's Houston Megachurch Blasted For Closing As Thousands Are Displaced

Joel Osteen is being ripped to shreds over his response to Hurricane Harvey

Man they are tearing into this dudes ass!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/joel-osteen-being-ripped-shreds-141645140.html

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A church is a place for making insane amounts of money, not a place to give shelter to it's parishioners...
What the fuck are you thinking?
Poor Osteen.
 
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Yes, I saw pics that show pics inside where they have now lined up air mattresses and pics outside of their building. No water. Witnesses reported their parking area was flooded, it the main portion of the building was fine!

Exactly!

The place used to be called The Summit and it was where the Rockets played.

It's got MULTIPLE UNDERGROUND parking levels going down 50+ feet below street level.

It was THOSE areas that flooded.
 
Fellow Pastor Unleashes Holy Hell on Joel Osteen for His Disgraceful Response to.....

Fellow Pastor Unleashes Holy Hell on Joel Osteen for His Disgraceful Response to Hurricane Harvey

"You don’t wait to be shamed by strangers, and you don’t make excuses."

I bet this is going to hit Osteen in the pocketbook?!!

Joel Osteen’s reputation was submerged in the wreckage left behind by Hurricane Harvey — and at least one pastor says the televangelist got what he deserved.

John Pavlovitz, head of North Raleigh Community Church in North Carolina, said the “prosperity gospel” minister had discredited his faith [3] by tweeting out banal platitudes as locals mosques and furniture stores offered shelter from the hurricane that flooded Houston.

“You’ve experienced the wrath of millions of people who watched the week unfold and determined they were witnessing in you and your megachurch’s response to the hurricane—everything they believe is wrong about organized Christianity,” Pavlovitz said, “its self-serving greed, its callousness, its tone-deafness in the face of a hurting multitude, its lack of something that looks like Jesus.”

The North Carolina pastor said Osteen’s critics had found his social media expressions of “thoughts and prayers” hollow and disingenuous, and they were disgusted by his self-serving excuses for his “late and underwhelming act of kindness performed under duress.”

“Don’t wait for an invitation, you don’t wait to be shamed by strangers, and you don’t make excuses,” he said.

“I imagine you feel like this has been a rough week,” Pavlovitz wrote. “It hasn’t. You’ve had the week you probably should have had, all this considered. You’ve had the week that was coming long before rain ever started falling in Houston.”

He urged Osteen to learn from the experience and understand why his critics have questioned his theology.

“They rightly recognized that mansions are not places that servant leaders emulating this humble, foot-washing Jesus occupy,” Pavlovitz wrote. “They correctly saw the massive chasm between the ever-grinning, your ship is coming in, name it and claim it prosperity promise that is your bread and butter—and the difficult, painful, sacrificial ‘you will have trouble’ life that Jesus and those who followed him lived in the Gospels.”

The pastor hoped Osteen would follow the example set by his fellow Houstonians and turn away from his “coddled, cozy, stock photo existence.”

“You had a difficult week, but you are safe and dry, and despite the criticism and pushback, blessed with more abundance than most people will ever know,” Pavlovitz wrote. “That’s good news for you. I don’t hold any of that against you.”

“The even better news, Pastor Osteen, is that you are alive,” he added. “You are still here and you have a chance now to show people that Christianity is far more than their greatest fears about it, much better than the worst they’ve seen of Christians, and more beautiful than the ugliness they’ve experienced in the Church.”

By Travis Gettys

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Joel Osteen Confirms Church Did Not Flood, But What About the Photos?


Joel Osteen has confirmed that his church in Houston was not flooded, despite various photos that have been floating around the internet this week. There seemed to be a lot of confusion about why Osteen’s Lakewood Church didn’t open its doors to the people of Houston straight away.

At first, people believed that the church itself was flooded. Then, people started posting photos and videos of the church, which appeared to be dry. From there, more photos of a flooded facility appeared online, and many were led to believe these pictures were from the church. However, Osteen has pretty much cleared things up for the internet.

“I think sometimes social media can be very powerful and it can create this false narrative, but if you’re sitting in another state and you’re not here — I mean, my niece was stranded right across the street from this building with nowhere to go. This building was one foot from flooding. If we didn’t have our floodgates, it would have flooded,” Osteen said on Today, according to NBC News. “I don’t know if it’s unfounded but I think if people were here they’d realize there were safety issues, this building had flooded before, and so we were just being precautious (sic) but the main thing is the city didn’t ask us to become a shelter then,” he added.

So, what’s with all the photos of the flooding that appears on the “lower level” of the church? Check out the photos below. The picture on the left appears to be from Norfolk Street in Houston, which is near the church’s parking garage. The caption “Lakewood last night” was added in after the original photo was uploaded. The caption on the original photo read, “These pics were taken of Norfolk by LWC.”

The picture on the right may actually be from another place entirely.

If the above photo was of Osteen’s church, there’s likely no way he would have been able to accept people.

It seems as though many people may have taken Lakewood Church’s original post about flooding out of context. On August 27, the church posted the following update on Facebook.

“Dear Houstonians! Lakewood Church is inaccessible due to severe flooding! We want to help make sure you are safe. Please see the list below for safe shelters around our city, and please share this with those in need!”

The severe flooding was not actually in the church — it was in Houston, making it impossible for people to get to the church. Social media interpreted this update differently and ran with it, putting Osteen and his church front and center during this extremely trying time.

The good news is that Osteen has opened the church and people have sought shelter there. In addition, thousands of donations have poured in and volunteers have been working diligently to help those in need.

http://heavy.com/news/2017/08/joel-osteen-hurricane-church-flood-photos-real-fake-truth/

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PROOF that GBA is wrong...
 
ROFL!!

Lying POS GBA got caught red handed and he ran away like the little bitch troll he is.

"near lakewood church?

what if i told u that norfolk st runs through the lakewood campus zappacrite?

but dont take my word for it

use google maps

or drive down there

or u could ax christiefa antifa :burn:


btw zappacrite


speaking of running away like a little bitch troll, where is ur proof that russell walker iz a trumpkin az u claimed?

https://www.justplainpolitics.com/s...umpkin-Trips-Himself-Up&p=2009607#post2009607

that was on aug 24

where is your evidence for that thread title, little bitch troll zappacrite?
 
OH, don't be so hard on yourself.
Everyone knows that you're a fool, in self denial. :D

Now you defend a piece of shit like Osteen?

You should have quit with defending the Nazis...
At least they have principals, shitty ones, but Osteen would rob anyone ...
You are without any morality whatsoever...

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