JOEL OLSTEEN’S LAKEWOOD CHURCH, HOUSTON = BIBLE HURRAH

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

As I type, Christians are gathering at the largest Christian church in America. Last evening the place was packed—16,000. Every seat taken.

It’s expected the same will occur this Lord’s Day morning. Packed. Every seat taken.

Joel Olsteen is the pastor. Lakewood Church, Houston is the congregation.

So what is preached there? Biblical truths.

This is a slap in the face against the liberal theology taking hold in various mainline denominations, including the apostasy underpinned by baptizing practicing homosexuality as a divinely-smiled-upon lifestyle.

Conservative. Evangelical. Biblical.

That’s what Lakewood Church is all about. It has no tinge of liberalism. It has no trucking with the apostasy prone. It has nothing in common with those who deny the divine revelation accepted as Holy Scripture.

Thousands are reaching out to the Word of God without compromise. There is no reason to slice up the Bible in order to make it "relevant." The Bible is eternal truth and so when preached and taught as that at the Lakewood Church, people flock, listen, and change their lives by the indwelling Holy Spirit.

The liberal seminaries continue to turn out those preachers who espouse the demythologizing of the New Testament, as I was taught at Harvard Divinity School. But the biblically moored seminaries turn out those pastors who align their ministries with the eternal verities.

Lakewood Church is another example of the evangelical inroad in America. No wonder the truly wise politicians are giving heed to this growing group. It is meant to be heard. It is meant to change the nation for the good.