很抱歉，我实在不能苟同这句话：
>很多事情不是对错的事，而是个人尽本分的事。

只要诚实，只要尽本分，神就会悦纳吗？
保罗说，以色列人对神有热心，但不按真知识（罗10：2），难道是保罗的自大？

Joel Osteen 是谁？他是牧师，是要教导圣经怎么说，不是教导人他怎么相信的。
他是个好人，是个真诚的人，不错，但是，他作为牧师，你认为他尽到他的本分了吗？
我们难道不应该辨识谁的教导有问题？
圣经多处要我们提防假教师，你怎么解释呢？
Joel Osteen曾经在一个电视访谈说， Mit Romney （摩门教）“是”基督徒，
因为他说他“相信耶稣基督”，因此Joel Osteen 说他不下判断。
Joel Osteen Again Falls Short of Christian Orthodoxy

这是什么话？
任何人说他相信耶稣基督，你就相信他就是基督徒？
你不必先问他相信的耶稣基督是怎么样的耶稣基督吗？
所以，我可以大胆地说，Joel Osteen 是个假教师。
你们可以骂我不宽容，自大，但是，我还是要本着圣经说，他是个引诱信徒，离弃真道的假教师。求主怜悯我的判断。

请参考以下的评论：
Joel Osteen’s Christianity without a Cross
http://www.dennyburk.com/?p=903

The sad thing about Joel Osteen is that he has all the marks of a sincere person. I just finished watching the profile of his ministry on “60 Minutes,” and there is not one thing about him that looks phony. He is one of the most likeable, loveable fellows that you’ll ever see. I really think he believes everything he is saying.

That is why what he does is so awful. The prosperity gospel that Osteen preaches will damn the very people he intends to help (if they believe it), and he appears completely unaware of the darkness into which he plunges his followers. Osteen’s lack of awareness of his own blindness was prophesied in the scriptures: “Evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived” (2 Timothy 3:13). If anyone has ever been deluded by his own error, it’s Joel Osteen.

Nevertheless, Osteen pastors a church that has about 42,000 people attending every week. On top of that, his television broadcast reaches an estimated 7 million people on a weekly basis. Yet by his own admission, his message focuses on the “positive,” and not on sin, redemption, and the cross of Jesus Christ. In other words, his message doesn’t focus on the Gospel. I would have to say that there is hardly anything distinctively Christian about anything that he says. And if fact, the prosperity “gospel” is decidedly anti-Christian (1 Timothy 6:10).

As I was watching the “60 Minutes” interview, I was aghast that Osteen openly admits that he preaches this way. He doesn’t even blush when he says it.

Inteviewer: “[In your new book, you write that] to become a better you, you must be positive towards yourself, develop better relationships, embrace the place where you are. Not one mention of God in that. Not one mention of Jesus Christ in that.”

Osteen: “That’s just my message. There is scripture in there that backs it all up. But I feel like, Byron, I’m called to help people…how do we walk out the Christian life? How do we live it? And these are principles that can help you. I mean, there’s a lot better people qualified to say, ‘Here’s a book that going to explain the scriptures to you.’ I don’t think that’s my gifting.”

Osteen has no idea that the Bible teaches that pastors must be able to do precisely what Osteen says he’s not gifted to do—teach the scriptures (1 Timothy 3:2). Moreover, pastors have to know the word so well that they are able to refute false teachers and their teachings: “He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it” (Titus 1:9). Not only does Osteen not have the pastoral gift of teaching, he is himself a false teacher.

I am writing this blog because I think Osteen is dangerous. The prosperity “gospel” that he preaches makes the Almighty into a cosmic slot machine; just believe hard enough and you’ll hit paydirt and have your “best life now.” Yet the Christian gospel explicitly teaches that if a person tries to have their best life now, they will forfeit eternity: “Whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake shall find it. For what will a man be profited, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his soul?” (Matthew 16:25-26).

Listen to Joel Osteen at your own risk. He is peddling death. And he is affable enough to make you feel like it’s life. But do not be deceived. Nothing could be further from the truth.