If your parish is plagiarizing anyone, feel free to send the examples as a comment. I will post them after checking them out.
I know the lazy liars are busy erasing this weekend - a kind of fall clean-up. However, it is fairly easy to find out what was posted previously.
The best approach is to show the link to the parish material and one to the original source.
If you have doubts, Google the last few words of one sentence and the first few of the next. It is almost impossible for two people to write the same words in a row, once the string is longer than two or three words.
If the same sermon titles and contents appear in various denominations, they are most likely copied from one of the sermon factories, like Groeschel's.
Groeschel gives permission to use his materials, but he cautions that ministers should acknowledge the extent of their debt. Some have been fired for their dishonesty. Not in WELS! WELS has standards. First, everyone has to sit down, hold the plagiarist's hand, and tell him his sin. This must be secretive, so that no one knows it. Next, the divisive trouble-maker who did this must wait about 30 years for the disciplinary process to kick in.
