My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places.

Former presidential candidate John McCain has described Osteen as "inspirational". In an interview on Fox News in 2008 during the U. Joel Scott Osteen (born March 5 1963) is an American author televangelist and the senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston Texas.

His ministry reaches over seven million broadcast media viewers weekly in over 100 nations around the world.