Episode 175: On Plagiarism in the Pulpit (with Ben Lacey)

Pastors Talk - A podcast by 9Marks

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Recently, there’s been lots of conversation about what constitutes plagiarism in the pulpit.

So Jonathan Leeman chatted with Mark Dever and Ben Lacey about the topic.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Jonathan Lehman.
0:11.2	And I'm Mark Devere.
0:12.6	And welcome to this episode of Nine Marks Pastors Talk.
0:16.5	Nine Marks exist to equip church leaders with biblical vision and practical resources for building healthy churches to the glory of God.
0:22.6	Learn more at nine marks.org. That's right. Mark, this will be our final episode of the season.
0:27.3	Oh, does that mean you're not going to talk to me anymore until September? I'll talk to you whenever you want.
0:31.6	Give me a call. Come on over. Stop by. So thank you to listeners who have been listening this far in the season and we'll rejoin
0:38.3	you in Septemberish or something. Why did you do a bunch of these without me? Well, I was at a
0:43.9	couple of different places and you weren't there and I just thought, hey, these are good, cool,
0:48.2	interesting, thoughtful, wise people to talk to? Is that all right? That's fine. All right. Did you
0:52.1	talk to them about stuff we haven't talked about you're not upset about that are you honestly at this moment I don't remember what we have talked
0:57.0	about is there a topic you'd like to cover that we haven't covered plagiarism hey that's let's
1:01.2	talk about that today good I think it's important that's where I think it's important too
1:05.1	and anybody listening probably knows that right now out there in the Twitterverse and Facebook verse and all the different verses.
1:12.6	Folks are talking about the Ed Litton case.
1:15.1	Ed is the president of the Southern Baptist Convention as of mid-June.
1:19.6	And a number of things have come to light for people on the web comparing his sermons to J.D. Greer's sermons, and it sounds like Ed has been
1:30.2	taking things from J.D. Those are the charges that are made. Our goal here is not to talk about
1:36.3	that and to render judgment on that, but to use this occasion as an opportunity to think about
1:42.2	plagiarism. It's something we've never covered in a pastor's
1:45.1	talk, and it seems like an important thing. Mark, why would we not want to use our time to render
1:50.3	judgment in the Ed Litton case? Is it not important? Oh, it's very important. I think, I mean,
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