{"podcast":{"title":"Selling Jesus","slug":"selling-jesus-6476854","podcast_index_feed_id":6476854,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/e3894160/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://sellingjesus.org","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/38074232/38074232-1686262588902-e1fa313e761ec.jpg","author":"sellingjesus.org","episode_count":68,"summary":"We want to highlight and exalt the radical generosity of God’s heart, confront the commercialization of Christianity, promote the biblical teaching that ministry should be supported but never sold, explore the history of how we've gotten to this point where it's a respectable sin to monetize ministry, and take a deep dive in the Scripture’s teaching on the subject. Our evangelical cultural moment has a serious blind spot in this area, and we hope to be a voice of reform. And our priority is to take seriously what Jesus commanded in Matthew 10:8: “Freely you have received; freely give.”","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T12:19:41.267341+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/selling-jesus-6476854"},"episode":{"title":"Adaptation and Inspiration","slug":"adaptation-and-inspiration","published_at":"2025-12-16T00:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/selling-jesus-6476854/adaptation-and-inspiration","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/selling-jesus-6476854","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sellingjesus/episodes/Adaptation-and-Inspiration-e3cdb5r","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/e3894160/podcast/play/112683643/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-11-15%2F414446940-44100-2-e4daa97410e5c.m4a","summary":"Read the article. Does the prohibition to sell the Word of God apply to adaptations? Adaptations include translations, bible study apps, or musical arrangements. This article looks into such adaptations and how they are directly connected to scripture and thus, should not be sold. sellingjesus.org ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ thedoreanprinciple.org ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ copy.church","meta_description":"Read the article. Does the prohibition to sell the Word of God apply to adaptations? Adaptations include translations, bible study apps, or musical arrang…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1445,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/selling-jesus-6476854/episodes/adaptation-and-inspiration/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/selling-jesus-6476854/adaptation-and-inspiration.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}