Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

gospel of ME. She says, “God wants you to love yourself. Itstarts with you.”at is exactly the message that Joel Osteen preaches. In1998, Oprah featured one of her many panels on the NewAge, this one composed of Betty Eadie, Sophy Burnham, andDannion Brinkley. Oprah said: “... one of the biggest mistakeshumans make is to believe that there is only one way.Actually, there are many diverse paths leading to what youcall God.” When an audience member disagreed, testifyingthat she believed that Jesus Christ is the only way to God,Winfrey got upset and said that she didn’t think that someonewould go to hell because they don’t believe in Jesus. Shestated emphatically, “THERE COULDN’T POSSIBLY BEONLY ONE WAY.” On the same program Oprah said: “I wasraised a Baptist and we were too hung up on traditional ways.I was sitting in church and heard that God is a jealous God. Iasked ‘Why? Come on--let’s get over it!’ ... I believe in theFORCE--I call it God” (“e Gospel according to Oprah,”Vantage Point, July 1998). Oprah worships the god that mostAmerican Christians worship, which is the non-judgmentalgod of e Shack.Oprah’s christ and Oprah’s gospel is the same one that ispreached at Lakewood Church, and the spirit that leadsOprah to worship “the force” is the same spirit that is“encountered” in worship at Lakeland.Israel Houghton’s worldly contemporary worship music fitsperfectly into this apostate context.In January 2014, Houghton joined hands with Tim Hughes,Graham Kendrick, Hillsong London, and other charismaticone-world church builders for the London Renewal.Conference host Noel Robinson’s objective is to see unity“across the denominations, churches, different expressions.”169