Kanye West brought the gospel to Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch on Sunday, and for many of the service’s 16,000 attendees, it was probably the first time they’d heard the word of God uttered inside that building.
Marketing his feel-good, inclusive Christianity as the truth, Osteen has sold his prosperity gospel to millions of people. It’s unclear whether West is one of them. We know that since his conversion to Christianity, he’s been taken under the wing of Adam Tyson, another megachurch pastor based in Los Angeles. But Tyson, unlike Osteen, seems to have read this handy-dandy book called the Bible.
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