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Preach Like Francis
of Assisi.
Greet with peace, praise God, call for a turn, press forgiveness, and keep it short.
- ✓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
Greet with peace, praise God, call for a turn, press forgiveness, and keep it short.
The street-preaching revival of the early 1200s. Francis left a merchant’s life in Assisi around 1206, gathered a band of brothers, and took preaching out of the cathedral and into piazzas, fields and village squares. No sermon text of his survives; what we have are his Admonitions, his letters, the Rule’s model exhortation, the Canticle of Brother Sun and the accounts of people who heard him. His secret: he preached short, plain and with his whole life behind it. He opened with praise or a greeting of peace, called people to turn to God, pressed forgiveness, set the blessed beside the lost, and stopped. He made the truth visible: a manger with a live ox at Greccio, a flock of birds told to praise their Maker. Thomas of Celano says he spoke “with simple words but largeness of heart,” and that he preached to a huge crowd as if to one person.
- 1210Innocent III approves his way of life
- 28Admonitions to his friars that survive
- 1228Canonized less than two years after death
What makes his style unique
“This unlettered man’s sermon became the source of not a little amazement for the many educated people who were present”
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Preach Like Francis of Assisi — Greet with peace, praise God, call for a turn, press forgiveness, and keep it short..
- 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 Francis of AssisiA fill-in outline in his shape, ready for your own text.
- 06SourcesEvery quote and number, cited.
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