Comments on: Psst - wanna buy a ticket?

By: Bene Diction

Bene Diction — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 03:18:11 +0000

Wouldn’t know him if I tripped over him:^)

By: Warren

Warren — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 02:25:05 +0000

I’m just refreshed that someone apparantly isn’t familiar with Osteen. There’s hope for us all yet.

By: Jared

Jared — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 23:20:14 +0000

Oops, if you’re wanting to look at that post, I suppose I could be helpful and just provide the link. Here ’tis:
http://thinklings.org/index.php?p=1892&more=1&c=1

My remarks on Osteen charging admission are sort of an addendum to a post largely about how not-like-that Christian writer/speaker Dallas Willard is.

By: Bene Diction

Bene Diction — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 22:00:24 +0000

Thanks Jared, I’ll head over and take a look.

By: Jared

Jared — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:37:41 +0000

I blogged on this a week or so ago at Thinklings.
What I don’t get is why anyone would pay even ten dollars to see a guy you can watch three times a week on TV for free.

I’m troubled by the selling tickets, as well, although I suppose it’s not that much different than a church conference charging admission to recoup costs.
The difference, I think, is that Osteen is perhaps the most successful (and wealthiest?) minister in the U.S. Why not pay for the venue yourself, provide free admission, and then take up a “love offering”? Then people are giving what they want to give and are able to give instead of giving out of obligation or compulsion.

And I’d be willing to bet that the same folks who’d buy a ticket to see a preacher would be the same folks who’d give a big offering if a plate was passed. He’d probably make more money that way.

Not that that’s what it’s all about for him, but . . .