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NASB | Ephesians 4:12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ephesians 4:12 [and He did this] to fully equip and perfect the saints (God's people) for works of service, to build up the body of Christ [the church]; |
Subject: How is the body built? |
Bible Note: 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 |