I have the good luck or rather bad luck of being indexed by Google for Oprah Winfrey church. So, I am getting traffic from people looking for Christians thoughts on Oprah Winfrey church. I personally are not wise enough to give my views.
In the Youtube video Oprah quoted she was ‘disconnected’ from the Christian belief because she heard that ‘God is a jealous God’. I think it is very convenient for her to just take one verse out of the whole Bible to claim that she doesn’t want a jealous God. Then, she went on her talk show to insist that one can get to Heaven (her perceived one) by their own merits.
So…I know that it is no longer the kind of Christianity that I subscribe to. I was a little disturbed and I decided to ask some well-learnt person from my church if Oprah is a cult? I prefer to keep his identity private but trust me, this is one of the coolest replied I have from one of the top persons.
as for oprah’s “church”, as far as i know (my limited knowledge) the official church has not said anything about that. perhaps other evangelical churches through their pastors have their views about the issue.
personally i would not bother too much about it. my reason would be
that throughout history there have been persons, groups, cults… with
various beliefs and orientations, and many of them contrary to the
teachings of Jesus..directly rejecting HIM. this has been the “norm”
from the time HE came into the world. and yet His church goes on…
perhaps even purified and renewed???
freewill is an important ingredient of christian life…and if we
extend this understanding to the way we look at others…then I guess
people are free to propagate what they want,
BUT the receivers must be
mature enough to process what they hear, or they must be helped to
process it ( especially if they are young and impressionable)oprah has a very big following, perhaps she meets the needs of some
people who need to hear what she says…her own brand of
“spirituality”. well i don’t think there is anything spectacular about
her or her mentor.in conclusion, and in my opinion the church would never subscribe to
any cult and that would include oprah’s. and we would be cautioned
about them and warned not to be swayed by them.
I said it is the coolest reply because I didn’t get any mumbo-jumbo, yadda yadda yadda, bla bla bla about what we usually hear from those learnt people. Sometimes, I privately think that some of those who are responsible to guide us are misguided because they have lost touch with the real world. They still live in Rome in Caesar times while we are here, struggling on the ground level.
Therefore, I pray that we are guided like what Jesus told his disciples in Matthew Chapter 13.
10The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”
11He replied, “The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. 12Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. 13This is why I speak to them in parables:
“Though seeing, they do not see;
though hearing, they do not hear or understand. 14In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:
” ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
15For this people’s heart has become calloused;
they hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.’[a] 16But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. 17For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.
(Bible quotes from Biblegateway)
**NOTE : The above is a very frank reply from someone who is well versed with Catholicism but it is not the official reply. It is up to you how you wish to interpret the comments in quotes. I do not entertain any arguments because this is my personal blog and the views are my own.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:14 am
the bible said that during the period of end times, many will rise and claim to be Him… well, perhaps end times are really upon us…
May 15th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Despite many “alternative” views of God around (and Jesus), the church which God had established through Jesus (and that includes you and me) have survived and is still growing after 2000 years. Blessed are those indeed whom He has revealed Himself. I was once blind but now I see
May 15th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
pablopabla – LOL, now we are talking….I notice a big change in my blogging style and yours too. We have shift our ‘winds’, Praise God.
zewt – In my Catholic church, we do not emphasise too much on end times signs…We just carry on living the NOW. But I do read some of those books and do get excited over them, but not too overly eager because what matter is the NOW.
May 15th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
December 8th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
GOD HELP US ALL
September 28th, 2009 at 7:05 am
I have watched oprah for years and i am not going to judge i pray that she gets to heaven
November 20th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
I believe that oprah oneday very soon will be severely judged for mis-leading so many people. JESUS put her where she is today for the purpose of using that platform to advance HIS kingdom, instead she has drawn attention to HERSELF, CULTS, IMMORALITY,INNER STRENGTH ETC….., the bible clearly states that there is only one name under heaven given among men by which we can be saved and thats the name of JESUS, there is NO other way to the father but through his son CHRIST JESUS.Unfortunatley for OPRAH our good deeds dont earn us favour with the father (“you get a car, your get a car…..”). I sincerely pray that oprah realises how wrong she is, beacuse it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God (JESUS)
November 30th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
As christians none of us are white as snow and at times in all of our christian lives we may lead people the wrong way some times we do not even realise we are doing it so lets not get on our high horse about things it is oprah who has to to face god on her own and she may have a lot to answer to but dont all of us
December 14th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
I LOVE GOD dearly,and most christians are lovely how ever we must learn to put our selves in her shoes how would we like it if when we made a comment there was a group of christians waiting to ripp apart every single comment you made it must be horrible for her to have to hear of christians saying that she is lost all the time it would drive any body to start there own church because she must feel that she has been cast aside by her fellow christians and i think this is so wrong so i understand that she may not have all her views correct but who on gods green earth has got it correct all of the time I do feel that that she may have a lot to answer for when she meets her maker but so do we all Well i know i do so lets get of our high horse and show love