Joel Osteen is as “natural” a speaker as I have ever seen. He is the pastor of a Houston Church that has tens of thousands of people watching him in-person at an arena and millions more via television every Sunday. If you have ever seen Osteen, you know that his speaking style is as natural as your best friend talking to you over a beer in a cozy neighborhood restaurant.
Osteen must be a born speaker, right? Perhaps he was a child prodigy like the Reverend Al Sharpton who began preaching at age four?
Wrong!
Osteen tells this about himself, “my daddy, (his father was the minister/founder of his church) asked me to preach on a regular basis for 17 years. I always told him ‘no, I‘m a behind the scenes guy. I like being behind the camera.’ The truth is that I was so afraid of public speaking that I couldn’t even standup in church to give announcements. But finally, one day my dad asked me to preach and I said yes. He died one week later and I have been preaching ever since.”
Osteen has gone on to say that his first few years as a preacher were difficult because he found the public speaking aspect so challenging—he was terrified by it. He also felt unqualified—he had only one semester of college under his belt and no formal religious training.
And yet he is now considered one of the top speakers in the world today (and not just by his co-religionists). As recently as 1999, he was a long-haired “kid” in jeans working a video camera; today he is wildly rich and famous as a speaker.
So if you don’t like public speaking and don’t feel you have any innate talents as a presenter, relax, you might just be a “natural” speaker every bit as good as Osteen.
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Joel Osteen is as “natural” a speaker as I have ever seen. He is the pastor of a Houston Church that has tens of thousands of people watching him in-person at an arena and millions more via television every Sunday. If you have ever seen Osteen, you know that his speaking style is as natural as your best friend talking to you over a beer in a cozy neighborhood restaurant.
