{"id":732,"date":"2009-11-30T15:46:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T20:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidcprice.wordpress.com\/?p=732"},"modified":"2009-11-30T15:46:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T20:46:56","slug":"your-best-life-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/your-best-life-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Best Life&#8230;Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post, I poked a little jab at a fellow minister, Joel Osteen.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a fan, I&#8217;m sorry, but I have some serious issues with Mr. Osteen&#8217;s theology, mainly because I believe that he not only simplifies the Gospel of Christ, he largely ignores it.<\/p>\n<p>The following is a video of Pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle offering response to a clip of one of Osteen&#8217;s messages.\u00a0 In it, Driscoll compares Osteen&#8217;s message with the life lived by Christ.\u00a0 I would add that if we look at the lives of all of the apostles and those who followed Jesus in the early church, the &#8220;victorious life&#8221; as taught by Osteen doesn&#8217;t fit reality.\u00a0\u00a0 Because of the incredible influence Osteen is having over Evangelicalism, I invite you to watch the video yourself and make your own determinations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7IuiUOapK1w?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Your+Best+Life...Now%3F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/your-best-life-now\/\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post, I poked a little jab at a fellow minister, Joel Osteen.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a fan, I&#8217;m sorry, but I have some serious issues with Mr. Osteen&#8217;s theology, mainly because I believe that he not only simplifies the Gospel of Christ, he largely ignores it. 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