Not so fast!

Pastor Joel Osteen responded to claims that he turned his back on evacuees and closed the doors to his Lakewood megachurch after Hurricane Harvey hit on Today this morning, and he says it was basically a case of misunderstanding just how many people needed help.

"Our church doors have always been open. In fact, we took people in right when the water started to recede, which was a day or two after the big storm hit. We work very closely with the city, four miles down the road the city established it's biggest shelter with room for thousands with beds, with kitchen supplies, with everything they need, security. They didn't need us as a shelter right then. And we coordinate with them all the time," he told Savannah Guthrie.

"If we needed to be a shelter we would have certainly been a shelter right when they first asked. But once they filled up, never dreaming we'd have this many displaced people, they asked us to be a shelter. And we said, 'Hey, we'd love to be a shelter.' That's what Lakewood is all about. I think this notion that somehow we would turn people away or that we weren't here for the city is as false as can be," he added.

We're inclined to believe him!