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Preach Like Mark
Clark.
Circle one word, dismantle the culture’s story, and test faith by treasure.
- ✓6 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
Circle one word, dismantle the culture’s story, and test faith by treasure.
Church planting in post-Christian Canada. Mark Clark grew up in a nonreligious home in Ajax, Ontario, read the New Testament as a teenager, and first walked into a church at 19. He moved to Vancouver in 2004 for school, served six years as a young adult pastor, and around 2010 started Village Church with about 50 people in an elementary school gym in Surrey, British Columbia. His secret: he preaches like a skeptic who got convinced. He names the belief the room actually holds (karma, “Christ consciousness,” “I’m going to heaven because I’m not Hitler”), takes it apart with evidence and a joke, then shows why Jesus is better. He goes slow through a few verses, often one word (“cried out,” “for,” “behold,” “all”), and stacks long, self-deprecating stories with dialogue that usually end on a serious turn. Under every sermon runs one test: do you just believe it, or do you treasure Jesus above everything?
- 50People at Village Church’s first school-gym services
- 6,000Weekend attendance at Village Church, c. 2020
- 6Village Church locations, c. 2020
What makes his style unique
“Mark is one of those people that I think just once in a generation or so, God raises up some incredible voices.”
— Who wrote this
We’re pastors. We’ve had your Monday.
Pastor Center is built and written by pastors — a lead pastor who planted churches, and a church planter who grew one to 4,000 in four years. The same team teaches 9 free courses and 164 lessons. This guide is the short version.
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What’s inside
Preach Like Mark Clark — Circle one word, dismantle the culture’s story, and test faith by treasure..
- 01Why he’s one of the greatsThe story, the numbers and what made his style his own.
- 02What he does6 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 Mark ClarkA fill-in outline in his shape, ready for your own text.
- 06SourcesEvery quote and number, cited.
— The plan
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