Even if that were the case it doesn't give you the right to lie and claim they are your sermons when you didn't create them.
I a AGREE! I believe MP should have been given credited for the use of his sermon message.
Sorry if my post came across like I thought it was ok to not give credit to our brother.
I a AGREE! I believe MP should have been given credited for the use of his sermon message.
Sorry if my post came across like I thought it was ok to not give credit to our brother.
Not at all I was just bored and pointing out the obvious.
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I a AGREE! I believe MP should have been given credited for the use of his sermon message.
Sorry if my post came across like I thought it was ok to not give credit to our brother.
I appreciate all of your responses.
Like I said, I needed a sounding board to make sure I wasn't being petty!
I will most likely send the brother an email, just making sure I compose it properly.
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A few years ago when I was pastoring, I posted several of my messages on a website called www.preachit.org. Obviously, I am no longer pastoring, but I still get calls quite frequently from preachers all over the country thanking me for the messages, etc. I am very happy that even though I'm not preaching them, they are still being broadcast and being a blessing to others.
Today I logged onto EA, and was scanning the front page. I was quite surprised to see one of my sermon titles listed on the right side of the page, and I thought, "Hmm, maybe someone posted it from the other website".
Well, I clicked on it, and it was my message - word for word, but another preacher had taken credit for it!
Now, I don't mind telling you, I was a bit miffed. But, should I have been? I never copywrited the message, so maybe I really can't complain.
What are your thoughts on this issue?
I think you had a right to be miffed. My first inclination is to think he had the same idea...but you said it was word for word. That's just plain dishonest of the preacher who posted it claiming ownership. The dishonesty makes me mad.
I have the date I posted it on the other website, which was around 2002, and then there is the date he posted it on EA, which is like yesterday!
However, I'm not out for blood, mainly I was out for a sanity check.......I don't want to be carnal about this!
Why would you even think it was carnal to be angry that someone else, a preacher, took your stuff and used it for their own? I think the other guy is the carnal one. Someone here mentioned using sermons off websites etc. That's really not the same thing, IMO. You said it was word for word not just an idea broadened to fit the need.
I'm sure if he is an ultra-con that he would claim that God gave him the exact same message... verbatim. However, this contradicts the ultra-con "theory" that when God talks to people via tongues and interpretation that it is filtered through their brain and comes out in the words that the person interpreting thinks God would talk like (insert Huge Eye Roll here).
I have the date I posted it on the other website, which was around 2002, and then there is the date he posted it on EA, which is like yesterday!
However, I'm not out for blood, mainly I was out for a sanity check.......I don't want to be carnal about this!
Bro. if the issue is you getting credit, then maybe you need to be careful of your motive. BUT I dont think that is the case at all.
if it was you would have been all out for blood and you werent.
For me the issue is honesty and integrity in ministry. this fellow certainly appears on the surface to have violated those principles.
Now it is possible, I suppose, that someone sent it to him and told him he could do what ever he liked with it, and he didnt even give it a second thought.
but it could be he knows it came from you and used it anyway.
I think finding out which of those 2 scenarios it is, is worth your effort.
Again, as far as I am concerned ( and I believe as far as you are as well) this isnt about you..... which is as it should be.
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Sure use the sermon, but give credit where credit is due. Posting a sermon you have copied word for word and claiming it as your own is just disgusting! Christian ethics? Hello?
However, this contradicts the ultra-con "theory" that when God talks to people via tongues and interpretation that it is filtered through their brain and comes out in the words that the person interpreting thinks God would talk like (insert Huge Eye Roll here).
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