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1 | How is the body built? | Eph 4:12 | EdB | 73636 | ||
Mommapbs I am not defending your pastors actions but since he has made the rules about tithing known you have a choice follow them or be against them. We both know rebellion is not of God. As far a plagiarism by your pastor, again not to defend him, God may have lead him to the message as what was needed to spoken to your congregation. If it was word for word there is a bigger problem that plagiarism, your pastor isn’t preaching he is reading. However if it was merely based a sermon on the thoughts of someone else and used them to birth more thoughts and used only bits and pieces of the other sermon I see nothing wrong with what he did. Most of the "big" time preachers have sermon writers, men and women that write all or part of the message researching illustrations, applications, scriptures, past sermons to put together their sermon. I see nothing wrong with a local pastor taking advantage of some of this research using it in his message. EdB |
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2 | How is the body built? | Eph 4:12 | Mommapbs | 73676 | ||
EdB - I so appreciate your thoughts. As far as titihing goes, we MORE than tithe, but our giving has always been God directed - what I suspect the pastor took exception to was that we had given a very generous donation to a parachurch ministry -(shame on whoever leaked that information!) and he most likely was bugged that the church did not recieve the same gift. But when he confronted us, my husband explained that God did NOT direct us to give in this way! So, "We must obey God rather than men!"- Acts 5:39 Since the Pastor has linked tithing as a means (HIS?) to measure of one's spiritual maturity, do you understand why I am concerned? And YES, with regard to the other pastor,the sermon was verbatim.(in fact, it was a message from one of YOUR favorite authors!) The message was sound, but it bothered me that the pastor did not cite his reference since the notes I took could have been lifted from the text I read on an internet site. To his credit, I will say that he has been more careful to give cite references where appropriate in his more recent sermons. I agree, there is nothing wrong with using what God has spoken to others, but I still believe that we must identify it as such. Anything I post is original; and in my writings, I try to be mindful of noting sources that have inspired me. Basically, if God is speaking to little old un-seminary trained me, then I should expect God to speak to our preachers as well. And yes, He does speak to us through others (that's what I thought we had preachers for!) - but please don't plagarize- the world is watching us too! Once again, thanks for your counsel. Hold down the fort as we are off to the cold of the Rockies for the next ten days! mommapbs |
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3 | How is the body built? | Eph 4:12 | EdB | 73731 | ||
mommapbs You got it! EdB |
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