Episode 158: Pastors Plagiarizing: An Example Using Josh Howerton--with Scot McKnight's commentary
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Pastors Are Not Journal Articles, They're Not Academic Performances
Sermons are not journal articles. They're not academic performances, publications where you're expected to play the game of attributing your sources. Everybody knows that when the central idea or the main points of your sermon or an illustration, you know that in this point, this is where i give credit to some one. Here's what's happened. People like this have audiences that have not been taught how pastors get their sermons and create them. And they don't want to hurt these people, so they live a lie. The burden on a pastor is big and deep and heavy, to come up with sermons all the time.
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