RadioOnFire.com - Pastor Joel Osteen recently received backlash after his organization allegedly shuttered their church to oncoming homeless victims of Hurricane Harvey in Houston. Since then, the pastor and his team made sure to let everyone know the church was open arms to homeless victims, even going as far as buying a massive amount of inflatable air mattresses and placing them in the megachurch that can fit almost 17,000 people in it.
Since then, Osteen went on CBS’ This Morning to address the backlash essentially placing the blame for the mix-up on the city of Houston. Osteen said, “The city runs shelters. They asked for a distribution center. We could’ve been a shelter from day one if they needed that. Somebody created a notion that, you know what, we’re not open in time but they’re not sitting here seeing that the mayor is saying don’t stay on the streets, don’t get on the streets, that this building is a safety issue.”
Osteen went on to say that “There was flooding. If we didn’t have our flood gates out back here, it was within one foot. This building flooded in 2001, the whole bottom floor. It would’ve been a safety concern at the start.”
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