Sermon Plagiarism

I had a sneaky suspicion that the sermon referenced in the post below was a cookie-cutter message. Sure enough, a quick Google searched proved that the pastor had stolen the sermon directly from Bill Hybels, the Willow Creek guy. Here is a link.

Believe me, I certainly have borrowed ideas and illustrations from other pastors; but I credit them (not illustrations usually because we all "steal" those). But it offends me as a pastor that this guy would compltely rip off another sermon and never once tell the congregation.

You did a bad thing Senior Pastor John McKinzie.

I think this brings up a lot of questions. Primarily, where is his sermon preparation. If he is just preaching Hybels' sermons, what does he do all week? Where is his preparation, his study? Why would I want to go watch somebody do a poor job of preaching Hybels' sermons when I can watch Hybels on the Interent?