There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.

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.