As you can imagine, Pastor John, emails flooded our inbox over the recent public words

of Victoria Osteen, wife of Joel Osteen.

Victoria attempted to explain how personal happiness and God's glory interact.

She said this.

When we obey God, we're not doing it for God.

I mean, that's one way to look at it.

We're doing it for ourselves because God takes pleasure when we're happy.

That's the thing that is going to be great joy this morning.

So what you didn't know this morning, just do good for your own self.

Do good because God wants you to be happy.

When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God really.

You're doing it for yourself because that's what makes God happy, amen.

Hello, but I'm Mark Daniel today.

Now, the Osteens are pretty easy targets.

I mean, you could pull a clip from just about anything that they say and critique it.

But this quote, when I first heard it, it really hit a home because it seems to touch

on so many things that we're about here at DG.

And I think this explains all the emails too.

So Pastor John, when you hear this clip, what comes to your mind?

Well, I would love to believe that Victoria and Joel, who is standing right there beside

her, mean by those words that she said, what I would mean by them if I provocatively use

them in a context.

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