I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

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.