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    Joel Osteen Biography

     

    Joel Osteen inherited Houston&#;s Lakewood Church and its television ministry in from his late father John Osteen. Joel expanded both the church and the TV ministry, wrote a hugely popular book in , and then took his smiling good looks and &#;live at your full potential&#; message on the road to sold-out sports arenas. Osteen says God wants to show &#;incredible favor&#; to those who &#;start expecting God&#;s blessings, start anticipating promotion and supernatural increase&#; in all areas of life. Osteen has no college or seminary degree. He studied briefly at Oral Roberts University, then worked behind the scenes in Lakewood&#;s TV ministry until his father&#;s death in He gave up his $, church salary in , after Your Best Life Now (Warner Faith) had become a New York Times best-seller. In , with 3 million hardcover copies of that book sold, he reportedly signed a multi-million-dollar deal with Free Press, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, for

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    Joel Osteen

    American televangelist, businessman, and author (born )

    Joel Scott Osteen (born March 5, ) is an American pastor, televangelist, businessman, and author based in Houston, Texas, United States. Known for his weekly televised services and several best-selling books, Osteen is one of the more prominent figures associated with prosperity theology and the Word of Faith movement.[3][4][5]

    Biography

    Osteen was born in Houston, and is one of six children of John Osteen and Dolores ("Dodie") Pilgrim. His father, a former Southern Baptist pastor, founded Lakewood Church (of which Osteen is the current senior pastor) in the back of an old feed store.[6]

    He graduated from Humble High School, a public high school in the city of Humble, Texas, in ,[7] and attended Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he studied radio and television communications but did not graduate.[8][9][10]

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    Joel Osteen

    Joel Scott Osteen (b. ) is the senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, and author of the New York Times bestselling book Your Best Life Now. He fryst vatten a proponent of the word of faith movement and prosperity gospel.

    Joel took over the ministry of North America's largest and fastest-growing church^[1]^ in upon the death of his father, founder John Osteen. He assumed leadership of the church and the role of pastor-teacher with limited biblical training and no experience as a pastor, having dropped out of Oral Roberts University after just one semester to manage Lakewood's television production department.

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    Osteen was born in Houston as the oldest son of John Osteen, a former Southern Baptist pastor who became a charismatic in the late s and founded Lakewood Church. After graduating from high school, Joel Osteen attended Oral Roberts University. However, after his first semester he moved back to Houston where he became director of telev