http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/the-bible-isnt-a-self-help-book-despite-what-your-megachurch-pastor-might-tell-you/by Matt Walsh
February 20, 2015
“Feel good! Be happy! Be nice!”
There you go. I just summed up the message that millions of Christians will be hearing at the megachurches of Joel Osteen, Joyce Meyer, and many others this weekend. If you were planning to go, now there’s no need. You’re welcome. In fact, if you’re driving there and you see a “Don’t worry, be happy” bumper sticker on the back of someone’s minivan, you might as well turn around and head home. That’s about all you were going to hear when you got there anyway.
Sure, they might come up with more compelling ways to communicate it, but in the end, when you dig past the charisma and the personality of the pastors who utter this gibberish, this is all you’re really left with.
An episode of Barney.
Syrup and sugar.
A smile and a pat on the head.
A self-help speech.
(excerpted. Continued at link above.)
