stephen writes into ask pastor john how do you feel about pastors who use ghost

writers to produce sermons blogs books or other written content from their

ministry in their name i i don't like it i mean i um in fact i'm against it i

think it's wrong to me um but let me let me define what i mean less they they

mean something i don't mean i don't want to accuse inappropriately ninety-nine

percent of readers believe that a byline my name under a book title means i

wrote it either i spoke it like spurgeon and someone wrote it down or i took

a pen or a computer and i wrote it that's what they assume and therefore

that's not matter whether two publishers agree that's not what it means or

or author in an editor or we don't think that's what it means well it is what

it means and you can't play fasteners with people's interpretations that way

that's what a byline means and i hope it stays that way and therefore i think

to put your name on a book you didn't write is a is a lie and the people would

be shocked if someone got your got the idea that this is just your ideas like

this person took a one-page set of ideas that they got from your sermons they

turned it into a book and you put your name on the book that's a lie and God

said thou shalt not lie God said love the truth we're pastors we we are people

who serve the truth our standards for truth should be higher than anybody

standards for truth not lower than anybody's standards now i believe in

editors big time David Mathis at D.G. is called senior editor i sent off to

him a book yesterday or was it day before yesterday and i said go at it David

help me avoid error help me not say things stupid help me get my grammar

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