joel osteen’s wife and you

i had fully intended to post my dmb/tom’s shoes post, making you insanely jealous, and laughing at how unmanly i look in toms shoes.

then i flip over to CNN and see Mrs. Osteen is getting sued over roughing up a flight attendant supposedly over a stain on her first class seat.

the long history of the cult of personality in america is well established and frighteningly healthy. some days, if you watch, celebrity news dominates actual news.

i hear you: um, duh, adam, we all already blog about it. that’s why its up to us to get the word out about tom’s shoes, or compassion, etc.

look….i hear you.

but the cult of personality can apply to christians as well.

I love Erwin McManus, Rob Bell, Paul Washer. The constantly give me food for thought.

I love Ragamuffin Soul, Brody Harper, Anne Jackson, Pete Wilson simply because they are regular people like me just trying to get it right more than they get it wrong. and especially with Pete and Carlos, helping others along the way.

if Mrs. Osteen was Mrs. Jones, would it matter really? its only because it is Mrs. Osteen that its news.

and it kills me.

she’s human. she’s going to make mistakes. I realize this. but lady, aren’t you a co-pastor with your husband?

you can’t go smacking up flight attendants. and if you had been anything but blonde and caucasian the sky marshall might have put some bruises on you in this day and age.

and this comment might get some flack but honestly, i don’t care if you are an uber-big mega church pastor, you should fly in coach. you can’t tell me to give every ‘week when you ride to the airport in a SL500, wearing an outfit costing more than my paycheck, and smack up some poor lady doing her job just because your seat is a little dirty.

and if you are a mega church pastor and read that, please understand, i don’t fault the Osteens for being blessed. not my call really if there message is on point, i don’t think it is, but that’s besides the point.

its hard to let my light “so shine before men” when others always try to turn the attention away with something like this.

okay. i am off to dance in the grass to DMB.

~ by adamintheocean on August 7, 2008.