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Preach Like G.E.
Patterson.
Read it together, make it plain, then name their troubles until the room rises.
- ✓5 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
Read it together, make it plain, then name their troubles until the room rises.
The broadcast era of the Black Pentecostal pulpit. Gilbert Earl Patterson was born in Humboldt, Tennessee, grew up in Memphis and Detroit, and was ordained an elder in the Church of God in Christ as a teenager. He founded Temple of Deliverance in Memphis in 1975 and preached there until his death, while his Bountiful Blessings broadcast carried his voice across the country every Sunday. His secret: he preached like a teacher who could sing. He has the whole room read the text aloud, boils it to one sentence people say to each other, and then makes it plain with homely pictures: a billboard you read at highway speed, his mother’s sewing-machine belt, a palm tree that moves to Chicago. He keeps announcing that he is closing, keeps going, and lands on a late litany that names the hearers’ troubles one by one until the room is on its feet.
- 1975Founded Temple of Deliverance, Memphis
- 436Joined on the church’s opening day
- 2000–07Presiding Bishop, Church of God in Christ
What makes his style unique
“He had this humongous voice - a big, meaty, bright, wide, vocal range.”
— Who wrote this
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What’s inside
Preach Like G.E. Patterson — Read it together, make it plain, then name their troubles until the room rises..
- 01Why he’s one of the greatsThe story, the numbers and what made his style his own.
- 02What he does5 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 G.E. PattersonA fill-in outline in his shape, ready for your own text.
- 06SourcesEvery quote and number, cited.
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