{"id":1894,"date":"2007-01-13T05:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T05:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/01\/joel-osteen-is-the-most-influe.html"},"modified":"2007-01-13T05:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T05:52:00","slug":"joel-osteen-is-the-most-influe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/01\/joel-osteen-is-the-most-influe.html","title":{"rendered":"Joel Osteen is the most influencial Christian in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thechurchreport.com\/mag_article.php?mid=875&amp;mname=January\">The Church Report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The list is the result of over 200,000 nominations from readers of the magazine and our online readers.<br \/>\nThis year&#8217;s most influential Christian in America, as chosen by the readers, is Pastor Joel Osteen of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkchristian.net\/?p=1040\">via<\/a>)<br \/>\nI bet there will be much celebrating over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boarsheadtavern.com\/\">Boar&#8217;s Head Tavern<\/a> (maybe they&#8217;ll hoist a round in his honor).<br \/>\nOne question I have is how does Bush, the President of the United States and therefore pretty influential wind up in 11th place?  How are they measuring influence?  In the world?  In their own lives?<\/p>\n<div class=\"tag_list\">Tags: <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Christian\" rel=\"tag\">Christian<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/religion\" rel=\"tag\">religion<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Church Report: The list is the result of over 200,000 nominations from readers of the magazine and our online readers. This year&#8217;s most influential Christian in America, as chosen by the readers, is Pastor Joel Osteen of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. (via) I bet there will be much celebrating over at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-under-the-sun"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Joel Osteen is the most influencial Christian in America - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/01\/joel-osteen-is-the-most-influe.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Joel Osteen is the most influencial Christian in America - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"According to The Church Report: The list is the result of over 200,000 nominations from readers of the magazine and our online readers. 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