Sunday, April 26, 2009

God Wants You To Copy Sermons from Rev. Craig Groeschel, United Methodist, Disciples of Christ




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Rainy and cold in A-Town this morning. Just doing a little sermon prep for tonight's message - Urban Legends - God Wants You To Be Happy .
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Door of Hope - God Wants Me to be HappyHere's today's Urban Legend: God wants me to be happy. Well doesn't he? Doesn't God want our happiness? Actually, it's a trick question. Sometimes you will ...
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GJ - Isn't Leonard Sweet a United Methodist?



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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "God Wants You To Copy Sermons from Rev. Craig Groe...":

By all means we must comply with our Holy Mother Church.

""Polish Catholic church cracks down on copied sermons"

By Monika Scislowska (AP, April 25, 2008)

Warsaw, Poland - There's a new commandment for Polish priests: Thou shall not lift. The Roman Catholic Church in this nation has published a new book that tells priests how to find inspiration in already published sermons without breaking the law by lifting passages from them verbatim.

The book, "To Plagiarize or Not to Plagiarize?" is an attempt to set boundaries in the wake of pulpit plagiarism claims that have hit not just Catholic clerics in Poland but ministers from other Christian denominations in the United States.

Temptation is just the click of a mouse away as more and more churches post their sermons online, not to mention the availability of books and church-sponsored magazines that provide inspiration for sermons.

There is a thin line between drawing inspiration and lifting the text outright, said the Rev. Wieslaw Przyczyna, one of the book's editors.

In Charlotte, N.C., the Rev. E. Glenn Wagner, a former senior evangelical pastor at Calvary Church, admitted lifting parts of sermons and resigned in 2004. Also, the Rev. Robert Hamm, the former senior minister at the United Church of Christ in Keene, N.H., admitted to similar accusations and resigned the same year.

Paul Hasser of the Center for the Liturgy of St. Louis University in Missouri said he remembered seeing priests reading their Sunday sermons directly from a book when he was a boy.

"That bothered no one then," said Hasser, who runs the Center's sermon Web site.

But with the quick dissemination of sermons on the Internet, and the involvement of copyright law, times have changed.

Now, in Poland, a priest caught using a plagiarized sermon can face stiff fines or even as long as three years in prison, though no one has actually been charged or sentenced.

The concern about ensuring that priests follow a righteous path is what led to the publication of the church's book last month, said Przyczyna, who helped edit the 150-page text that is available to Poland's 28,000 priests for about $13.

Przyczyna, a sermon expert at Krakow's Pontifical Academy of Theology, told The Associated Press that existing sermons can be used _ "but according to rules" that forbid a word-for-word citation without properly acknowledging their source.

"You need to give a clear signal: The text is not mine," he said. "If priests lack this kind of sensitivity, they should at least be afraid of the law."

In Poland, he said more and more clergy and churchgoers have reported a "spreading problem" of the lifting of sermons, but no precise research has been done and exact figures are just guesses.

It is an issue that is particularly sensitive in this country of 38 million people, where more than 90 percent of the population is Catholic and many attend Sunday Mass. Priests enjoy great moral authority, especially in rural areas.

Przyczyna said that offending priests "were not aware" that "they were acting immorally and ignoring the copyright law" but "believed they were using the Church's public domain."

"Saying a sermon means bearing witness to one's own faith, and how can you do that using someone else's text?" he said. "It is falsehood creeping into the preaching of truth that God is."

Przyczyna recounted a recent encounter with a nun in Krakow who said she had stopped attending Masses by her favorite priest after he delivered _ word-for-word _ a sermon she'd seen on the Internet written by someone else.

Parishioners at another church _ suspecting their priest of plagiarizing _ attended Mass with their own copies of a sermon posted online for that specific Sunday.

When the priest delivered it verbatim, they met with him afterward and privately rebuked him for the plagiarism.

The concern is not just local. The Biblioteka Kaznodziejska, a bimonthly magazine that publishes sermons, was checking whether a Polish text offered for the February edition was actually a translation from the Rev. Raniero Cantalamessa, an aide to Pope Benedict XVI.

It's chief editor, the Rev. Maciej Kubiak, said that the people lifting sermons mostly have been young priests in cities who are Web-savvy but lack experience in speaking publicly.

"You see it in their approach to the Internet: You can draw freely from whatever is there," Kubiak said. "Preparing a sermon means an effort but you must be honest in it."

For others, though, the issue pales to other concerns, such as fighting poverty and spreading the faith.

"It sounds like tabloid news," Jozsef Szikora, president of the Association of Hungarian Catholic Journalists, told AP, adding he had not heard of any plagiarism among priests in his own country.

Przyczyna, though, hopes the book will increase awareness about plagiarism and cause priests to "be afraid and embarrassed" to speak someone else's words without due credit."

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http://www.wwrn.org/article.php?idd=28408&sec=4&con=46

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "God Wants You To Copy Sermons from Rev. Craig Groe...":

Will they copy Joel Osteen next?

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "God Wants You To Copy Sermons from Rev. Craig Groe...":

What an admission! The CORE receives no inspiration from the Word of God and must copy others. Sausages from the Sausage Factory offer only malnutrition.

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GJ - Vegan sausages - almost like the real thing.

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "God Wants You To Copy Sermons from Rev. Craig Groe...":

Ever wonder why Lutheran pastors dislike Luther? Then read the following:

"Pastor’s Perspective
October 28, 2007
Luther on Lazy Pastors and Preachers
Filed under: Church History, Luther, Pastors, Preachers/Preaching — Jim Kang @ 11:05 pm

Luther pleaded with ministers to be diligent in their study. He said:

Some pastors and preachers are lazy and no good. They do not pray; they do not read; they do not search the Scripture… The call is: watch, study, attend to reading. In truth you cannot read too much in Scriptures; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read carefully you cannot understand too well, and what you understand well you cannot teach too well, and what you teach well you cannot live too well… the devil… the world…and our flesh are raging and raving against us. Therefore, dear sirs and brothers, pastors and preachers, pray, read, study, be diligent… This evil, shameful time is not the season for being lazy, for sleeping and snoring [Quoted in John Piper, The Legacy of Sovereign Joy (Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2000), 101]."

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http://jimkang.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/luther-on-lazy-pastors-and-preacher/