This from the Evangelical Outpost. You can view the full article at the following link:
http://www.internetmonk.com/archives/2005/01/019842.html

This Joel Osteen, a young man who stumbled into his father's shoes, now is the most successful pastor in America, and will soon be a best selling author, seen and heard around the world standing in a pulpit, preaching pragmatic positive thinking, pure and simple, out of an open Bible. He will represent evangelicalism with his big smile and a message that would make Screwtape shout "Amen! Preach it brother."
This is where evangelicalism has come to in 2005. This is what the heirs of the Reformation have come to accept as acceptable. This is what can be endorsed and advertised to evangelicals and be sure to sell millions of copies.
It makes me angry and I want to do something.
Osteen is the pastor of the 30,000 member Lakewood Church in Houston and a Robert Schuller-style "think positive and be blessed" type of minister. The day he becomes the representative for evangelicalism is the day that I stop calling myself an evangelical.