Who Owns the Pastors' Sermons?
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Sam Rainer — church leadership author and president of Church Answers — posted that pastors, not churches, should own the intellectual property of their sermons, and put the answer for how to fix it behind a paywall. Conley and Andrew walk through Conley's exchange with Rainer on X: whether the preached Word of God can be owned at all, the emotional hypotheticals people reach for when Scripture isn't on their side, and what happened when Conley shared a free resource and was told "you're just trying to sell me a book." A conversation about copyright, control, and why ministry should be given freely. Read and get the Dorean Principle for free at https://thedoreanprinciple.org
0:00 The tweet that started it
2:56 The fired-pastor hypothetical
6:30 Who is Sam Rainer?
8:24 "You're just trying to sell me a book"
11:56 Freely you received, freely give
LEARN MORE
https://sellingjesus.org
https://copy.church
https://thedoreanprinciple.org
Sam Rainer — church leadership author and president of Church Answers — posted that pastors, not churches, should own the intellectual property of their sermons, and put the answer for how to fix it behind a paywall. Conley and Andrew walk through Conley's exchange with Rainer on X: whether the preached Word of God can be owned at all, the emotional hypotheticals people reach for when Scripture isn't on their side, and what happened when Conley shared a free resource and was told "you're just trying to sell me a book." A conversation about copyright, control, and why ministry should be given freely. Read and get the Dorean Principle for free at https://thedoreanprinciple.org
0:00 The tweet that started it
2:56 The fired-pastor hypothetical
6:30 Who is Sam Rainer?
8:24 "You're just trying to sell me a book"
11:56 Freely you received, freely give
LEARN MORE
https://sellingjesus.org
https://copy.church
https://thedoreanprinciple.org