Theophilus Cafe is a place where we can have a running dialogue based on a question or issue that I post. Think of the Cafe as a virtual coffee house where you can gather with your friends and discuss the posted topic or just reflect on it. Please post your thoughts or response on this topic in the comments. So the question today is: Should preachers be fired for plagiarizing a sermon?
Theophilus Cafe #16
May 8, 2008 by theophilusmonk
Through a sermon one would expect that the Holy Spirit is speaking through the minister. In writing a sermon one should draw on what others have said, what the Bible says, and what the Spirit is moving one to say. But to just read someone else’s message verbatim seems to remove the action of the Spirit. Maybe not be fired but at least called on the carpet.