So listen in–it’s a wild ride! And a super riveting one. I hope by raising awareness that this practice will stop, because I don’t think God is pleased with us. We should not be pursuing celebrity and making ourselves look better than we actually are by stealing from others. This isn’t my usual fare, but as someone who has been plagiarized, it matters. But the whole thing is important! And we’re so grateful that Scot McKnight, a professor of New Testament from Northern Seminary, joined us to give his viewpoint on the ethics of plagiarism for pastors. I’m going to walk you through this in today’s podcast today, and please listen especially to the first bit, where we give the examples, and then at least the last 10 minutes, when Rebecca explains why this matters. So I backed up to the beginning of that section of the sermon and started running things through Google, and in one 8 minute block of the sermon I found material from four different people, none of whom were cited. Sure enough, Josh used the material without ever attributing it to Stanley. (I talked about that book on the blog back in 2016, and there’s a phrase from it that I say all the time– “become the kind of person the kind of person you’re looking for is looking for.” Because what he was saying I recognized from Andy Stanley’s book The New Rules of Love, Sex and Dating. And when I got to the 11 or 12 minute mark, I was shocked. I decided to listen to it one morning as I got ready, since it fit with what we’re talking about during Marriage Misdiagnosis month. I listened to the clip, but then saw, on the bottom of the page, his sermon for March 27, which was about how Marriage is Hard. I was sent a clip from one of his sermons by a concerned listener after I started tweeting about Howerton supporting platforming Mark Driscoll, and not thinking that was a disqualification. Today I want to walk you through a portion of a sermon by Josh Howerton, senior pastor at Lakepointe Church, a multi-campus megachurch in Rockwall, Texas. It’s rampant among pastors and authors in evangelicalism, and it allows people to give a false sense of themselves to others to boost their status. And I think plagiarism is part of that celebrity. I’ll be frank: I think evangelicalism has a problem with celebrity, as we talked about on last week’s podcast. Should pastors be allowed to plagiarize in their sermons?
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