Welcome to Doctrine and Devotion. It's a podcast that explores Christian faith and practice

from a reformed Baptist perspective without plagiarism. My name is Joe with one on Lead

Pastor of Regional Fellowship in St. Charles, Illinois.

And I'm Jim Fowler, Executive Pastor at Redeemer Fellowship.

We just do our own stuff. Yeah, we don't do other people stuff.

Nope. We don't take their name off of the stuff and then put our name on it.

That takes way too much effort that we're not willing to do.

The reason we don't plagiarize is because we're lazy. It's like, you know, but if I had

a whole team of people that were constantly doing it for me, doing my research, you know,

so that my commentaries and books could just stop my name on it, you know, my Bible

stuff and just stop my name on it. My endorsement letters. By the way, I'm joking.

I'm not. I'm not saying that I believe that John MacArthur plagiarized all that stuff.

But wait, is that a thing or are you having been one? No, I'm out of everything.

Yeah. So, listen, I don't know this is true. I was having fun with the news headlines

and all that. No, so this is today. That's this whole week. Yeah. Oh, well, last week

when this airs. Yeah. So Julie Roy's released a little thing and apparently this guy who

used to work with the Master Seminary, John MacArthur or whatever was like, yeah, he doesn't

really write his books and the commentaries really aren't his work. It's all the scholars

from the Master Seminary. And here's an example I can show you. I wrote this. You

just have my name on it. And now it's been republished in another book and my name is

taken off of it. And yeah, so he's like, John MacArthur plagiarizes. That's a, I have

a hard time with that. You for all this time that he's been in ministry, right? Wouldn't

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