Joel Osteen, pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, revealed that he has a personality that “wants people to like me” but he has accepted the reality that some people won’t.
“My personality type is that I want people to like me. This is my nature. I got into the public eye, and I realized that some people won’t like you because they don’t like what I stand for. They don’t like that I’m successful. But I realized that you won’t get everyone to like you,” Osteen said at Lifepoint Church in Virginia where he promoted his new book, Next Level Thinking.
Before delving into a discussion with Lifepoint Church’s Senior Pastor Daniel Floyd, Osteen told the 1,650 people who had gathered to hear him speak that he didn’t come prepared with a special message but ended up sharing one anyway.
“I believe that God can take you places that you can’t go on your own. When you honor God with your life, when you keep Him first place, you don’t know what kind of door God’s gonna open. Never dreamed I’d be a minister, never dreamed I’d be up here with y’all tonight, but you know what? God’s plan for your life is bigger than your own,” he said.
He said at one point while working…
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