Pastors commit pulpit plagiarism
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Sermongate Prompts a Quandary: Should Pastors Borrow Words From One Another?
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“I can’t say I expected all of it,” Mr. Litton said in a videoconference from his church office in Mobile, Alabama on Tuesday. “I did expect some things to happen. But yes, it’s been more than I expected.”
He added, “There are moments, you know, you entertain [the question], ‘Why did I do this?’ And when people come up to you and say, ‘I don’t know whether to give you congratulations or condolences,’ I understand that now.”
Unlike most American churches, the Southern Baptist Convention is not a denomination with a top-down hierarchy. Mr. Litton is the president of the convention, an annual meeting of 15,000 delegates (called “messengers”) who vote on a range of issues “It’s the largest deliberative body in the world,” he said any of whom can get to a microphone and speak to a given question.
Southern Baptist Vote Signals Further Fractures in American Evangelicalism
The establishment narrowly headed off a takeover attempt by a hard-right movement. Some backers of the losing candidate are now considering leaving altogether.
Leaders of an ultraconservative insurgency in the Southern Baptist Convention characterize its president, J.D. Greear, and his newly elected successor, Ed Litton, as moderate, or even progressive.Credit.Mark Humphrey/Associated Press
June 16, 2021
NASHVILLE Southern Baptists agree that the Bible is divinely inspired and without error, that belief in Jesus is the only way to Heaven, that women may not serve as head pastors, and that true marriage is between one man and one woman.