Well, as I posted yesterday, Victoria Osteen is being sued by a Continental Airlines flight attendant over verbal & physical abuse and the subsequent emotional distress of it all (click here for more of the story from cnn.com). The question being raised now is what importance does Osteen’s payment of a $3,000 fine from the FAA bear on her being guilty of the charges? Osteen says nothing happened on the flight and that the flight attendant (and other witnesses) are confused about what they remember. She claims that she paid the FAA fine just to be done with the incident and to avoid embarrassment to Lakewood Church--it was not, she contends, an admission of guilt.
So, now it’s not just how she supposedly acted on the flight over not getting a stain on her seat the size of a 50 cent piece removed quickly enough, but now people are coming out and blasting her over not being truthful about the incident.
It’s all over the news, and here is a comment to a post about this from another blog site:
There is nothing frivolous about this case, and the wife is a liar. This case isn’t about the stain on the seat. The Preacher’s Wife pushed and injured the flight attendant. The wife was fined by the FAA for her conduct and she paid it, an obvious admission that she was, in fact, disorderly and combative with the flight crew. So here it is: the FAA fined her and she paid it. If she didn’t do it, then she lied by admitting it and paying the fine. Christians shouldn’t lie. Christians who do not follow their rules are crummy Christians. Therefore, the wife is a crummy Christian. The Bible doesn’t say only tell the truth when it is easy, and lie to be expedient. Either it is right or wrong to lie, no exceptions, no shades of gray.
My problem with Christians isn’t what they believe, it’s that they don’t believe what they say they believe.
Again I say this, regardless of who we are we are going to be put under scrutiny from those outside of the kingdom of grace. We can sit around and claim foul all day long or choose to ignore such things because we know God gives us mercy through his grace, but then why do we have examples of Jesus calling us to be different? Through his 3 year ministry he was faced with tremendous scrutiny and the Pharisees were just following him waiting for the opportunity to get him arrested. He never slipped up and was finally arrested on a claim of blasphemy and this required help from someone within his inner circle who betrayed him (Judas).
It’s time we took responsibility for our actions and right or wrong, we should hold onto our character and admit our shortcomings and ask for grace. Are we here for self-preservation, or are we here to bring glory to the one who saved us from eternal death? Remember, it should be all about Christ and never about us. Let us remember all that Jesus endured on his way to the cross so that we could stand here today and profess him as Lord and follow the path of righteousness in honor of his ultimate sacrifice for humanity.
PS. None of my comments are intended to incriminate or judge Mrs. Osteen. I only draw attention to the event of her trial as a means to shed light on the judgment that comes upon us if and when we do things that may cause us to fall short in the eyes of others and why it is important to consider the ramifications of our actions more seriously as the eyes of the world (and God) are upon us.
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- Joel Osteen’s wife causes loss of faith?!
- Now John Edwards is in the fray
- Joel Osteen…in my opinion
- Seasons change…Why i re-started my twitter account
- Reasons not to invite others to follow Christ
Tags: cnn.com, jesus, truthfulness, victoria osteen
