Nation singer John Wealthy is making waves after publicly trashing megachurch pastor Joel Osteen. Throughout a wide-ranging podcast dialogue, Wealthy took a second to discuss faith and clarify why he isn’t a fan of Osteen, one of many world’s hottest televangelists. Based on Wealthy, Osteen fails to evangelise a key element of the Gospels, and to him, that is a significant misstep as a Christian chief.

On the “Shawn Ryan Present,” Wealthy, 51, opened up about his religion earlier than turning his consideration to megachurch pastors like Osteen.

In the course of the dialog, Wealthy slammed Osteen, 62, for allegedly refusing to make his congregation “uncomfortable” with what Wealthy believes is the reality: that the tip instances are coming.

Wealthy said that instructing sure passages from the Bible could be “very uncomfortable for Christians to have to consider,” including, “To say that God would by no means make his individuals undergo one thing like that is likely one of the most ignorant, spiritually ignorant issues an individual may say.”

He continued, “That is primary. Quantity two is in fashionable church buildings even at present, they nonetheless don’t need there’s a couple of however not many. They do not need to preach that.”

As he went on, the “Metal Bridges” singer mentioned that preachers like Osteen would “by no means” share what he considers to be the reality together with his viewers. “Joel Osteen is rarely going to say something that is going to make anyone uncomfortable ever on any stage ever,” he mentioned.

Wealthy additionally slammed Osteen, who has over six million followers on Instagram, for seemingly overlooking a vital a part of what he believes all church companies ought to embrace, particularly the altar name, the place congregants can select to publicly give their lives to Christ.

“Hundreds of individuals coming down there to hope and provides their life to Jesus. You are not going to see Joel Osteen do this and there is a bunch of different preachers like that,” Wealthy claimed.

However that is not all Wealthy needed to say concerning the Texas-based church chief. As he went on, Wealthy known as out Osteen for instructing his church-goers that God would by no means make the devoted face particular challenges.

“To [those teachers], I say, actually?” Wealthy said. “Why don’t you go inform that to the underground Christians in communist China proper now who’re being killed by the hundreds?”

He added, “Why don’t you go inform that to the Christians in Syria proper now who’re being chopped up into items within the streets? Do you assume fats, lazy, American Christians are higher than them? No. They’re superior to us.”

“They’re keen to worship God and be a Christian when it means they may die for doing it. And we don’t have that drawback in america,” Wealthy completed.

Osteen and his spouse, Victoria Osteen, are pastors of one of many largest church buildings in America, Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. Based on GotQuestions Ministries, a Christian useful resource middle, Osteen’s weekly tv program is seen by greater than 20 million individuals every month in additional than 100 international locations—and that is not together with the church’s podcast, YouTube streams, and social media posts.

Though some primary tenets of Osteen’s message—like “the triune nature of God”—are biblical, his teachings are most famously related to the controversial “prosperity gospel,” the concept that materials wealth is an indication of God’s favor.

GotQuestions Ministries notes that one other flaw with Osteen’s teachings is that they usually sound like “an inspirational life-coach” slightly than the true teachings of the Bible.

“He usually preaches about how individuals can enhance their lives, be affluent, and expertise happiness. Noticeably absent in Osteen’s optimistic message is any point out of sin or repentance. The atonement of Christ gives us with therapeutic and the plentiful life, based on Osteen, however apparently receiving forgiveness from a holy God isn’t obligatory,” their web site states.

“In quite a few interviews and writings, Osteen has didn’t proclaim that Jesus is the one option to heaven. He has repeatedly refused to agree with the teachings of the Bible that sure behaviors are sinful. This isn’t a brand new convert being interviewed; it’s the chief of a church of tens of hundreds. Osteen can’t carry himself to help elementary doctrines of the religion he claims to evangelise. His phrases talk relativism and reveal a profoundly poor understanding of the Bible.”