Joel Osteen, the popular 52-year-old leader of America’s largest protestant church, Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, bluntly revealed that the reason why he avoids speaking out on hot button social and political issues, such as same-sex marriage, is because he believes that’s not what he’s called to do as a pastor.
In a recent interview on WBUR’s “Here & Now” radio program Osteen, who was asked if he felt these hot button social and political issues are important, said: “I think they are important but I think everybody has their own calling.”
He further explained that “It’s not what I’m called to do.”
“I have friends who are very political. They’re pastors and that’s what their thing is. But I think sometimes, that the church world, we can take one issue and make it really, really big and it can turn people off where there are many bigger issues. That’s why I don’t like to be defined by one thing,” said Osteen last Monday.
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Joel Osteen on Why He Avoids Political, Social Issues: ‘It’s Not What I’m Called to Do! was originally published on praisecleveland.com
