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→Life and work: Changed location from San Diego, TX, to San Diego, CA, with 2 citations. This has been changed before, but the correct location is CA. |
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Osteen was born in [[Paris, Texas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=076sgr3PuQU |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/076sgr3PuQU |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=John Osteen's Biography |publisher=The John Osteen Television Program |date= |accessdate=June 12, 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He earned a bachelor's degree from [[John Brown University]] in [[Siloam Springs, Arkansas]], and a master's degree from [[Northern Baptist Seminary]]. He also held a [[Doctor of Divinity]] degree from [[Oral Roberts University]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://houstonhistorymagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/lakewood.pdf |title=From the Oasis of Love to Your Best Life Now: A Brief History of Lakewood Church |publisher=Houston History Magazine |date= |accessdate=June 12, 2014}}</ref>
In his biography, Osteen said he did not begin thinking seriously about God until 1939, after leaving a nightclub he frequented. Within a couple of months, he began preaching in Paris, Texas, and was apparently ordained to the gospel ministry shortly before his 18th birthday by a church affiliated with the [[Southern Baptist Convention]]. He served as an Associate Pastor at First Baptist Church in [[San Diego,
During his pastorate of Central Baptist Church, Osteen and his first wife, Emma Jean Shaffer, began to experience marital unrest and subsequently divorced. He married Dolores "Dodie" Pilgrim on September 17, 1954, and the following year resigned his pastorate. Before long, Osteen again entered pastoral ministry at Hibbard Memorial Baptist Church, [[Houston]], Texas, but left in 1958.
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