Joel Osteen’s Typical Week
March 4, 2008
This is from an interview on southernillinoisan.com where they asked Joel Osteen (who I still think looks like Orel Hershisher) what a typical week in his life is like (h/t MMI)
Mondays and Tuesdays I try to take off. Wednesdays I read and study and pray. I have a stack of notes for potential sermons. I get a theme, and once I feel good about a simple thought, I read and find stories on that. I get up real early and write my sermon on Thursdays. Fridays I finish writing it and take three hours to go over it. I really get it down in me. Saturday I study it for several hours and finish getting it down in me. I have a real good memory. I rest Saturday afternoon before the Saturday night service, and I also preach two Sunday morning services. Sunday afternoon I edit the sermon for the television broadcast. I’m just used to doing that. That’s how I started.
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jmeunier | March 4, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Is that pretty much how your week goes, Matt?
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Matt | March 5, 2008 at 12:12 pm
But of course!
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Chris | March 5, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Seriously Matt, I’d like to know your typical week.
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Matt | March 6, 2008 at 7:11 am
Oh, I don’t know Chris. There’s no such thing as a typical week. Yesterday would be something like a typical day. I got up, went to work out, came back and helped get the kids ready for school, met a friend for accountability and breakfast, went by a local store just opened by a woman who has been regularly visiting our congregation to visit, got something for lunch and supplies for the afternoon, came back to church and put out tables and chairs after a floor cleaning, worked with the children’s after-school program and spoke about the Last Supper and communion (I asked if they had any questions and one of the new girls said, “Do you think I’m pretty?!”
), spent time answering email & calls and a bit of time on the computer, had dinner at the church, and then church council meeting till 8pm, drove thirty minutes home and got to my house at 8:30pm. That’s at my “second point,” on my two-point charge. On another note, I had wanted to finish my sermon that day, but it didn’t materialize. There were other little things that came up, but I don’t remember!