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Preach Like Billy
Sunday.
Preach with your whole body in the language of the street, and push for a decision now.
- ✓8 of his sermons, studied start to finish
- ✓Ten steps to preach the way he did
- ✓A fill-in outline in his shape, 9 pages
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— Why he’s one of the greats
Preach with your whole body in the language of the street, and push for a decision now.
Billy Sunday took the rural tent meeting into America’s biggest cities and built temporary wooden tabernacles, floored with sawdust, to hold crowds no church could seat. Coming forward to shake his hand became known as “hitting the sawdust trail.” His secret: he preached with his whole body and in the language of the street. He wound up like a pitcher, slid across the platform like a runner stealing home, and retold Bible stories in slang, so a feast in Babylon became “no common beer, pretzel and dill pickle blow-out.” Underneath sat a simple engine: a plain question, short labeled points, true local stories, a running fight with the skeptic, and a hard push to decide now.
- 1883-90Years he played in the National League
- 18,000Seats in his largest tabernacles
- 80-100MPeople he is estimated to have preached to
What makes his style unique
“I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring a dictionary.”
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Preach Like Billy Sunday — Preach with your whole body in the language of the street, and push for a decision now..
- 01Why he’s one of the greatsThe story, the numbers and what made his style his own.
- 02What he does8 of his sermons, studied start to finish, and the shape they share.
- 03How he does itTen steps to preach the way he did.
- 04His outlineWhere the time goes, movement by movement.
- 05Write one like Billy SundayA fill-in outline in his shape, ready for your own text.
- 06SourcesEvery quote and number, cited.
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