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An entry posted to a WordPress blog (since removed) entitled Joel Osteen Ministries in April 2013 carried the purported announcement that Joel Osteen, the senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, had not only resigned from that post but was renouncing his Christian faith: The link in that blog entry leads viewers to a web site that is supposedly the Official Site of Pastor Joel Osteen, a site which carries his resignation announcement and reproduces a news item from CNN headlined Pastor of mega church resigns, rejects Christ. It's all a hoax, however. The reason the Official Site of Pastor Joel Osteen looks stripped down and bare is because it's a fake (note the misspelling of his surname Osten in the URL), neither CNN nor any other news outlet reported on his having resigned and left Christianity behind, and both the genuine web site of Joel Osteen Ministries and the Lakewood Church web site continue to carry weekly messages from Joel and Victoria Osteen and make no mention whatsoever of this startling announcement allegedly issued by Pastor Osteen. Last updated: 12 December 2017
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