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Preach Like Oral
Roberts.
Put the listener inside the story, give a point of contact, and call for a decision.
- ✓7 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
Put the listener inside the story, give a point of contact, and call for a decision.
Roberts came out of the Pentecostal Holiness church in Oklahoma, began a healing ministry in Enid in 1947, and took it on the road under a canvas “tent cathedral.” By the mid-1950s he was filming those tent meetings for national television. His secret: every sermon was a runway to a moment of decision. He took a Bible scene, put the listener inside it (“your furnace,” “your point of need”), handed them a simple act of faith to perform, a “point of contact,” and then called them forward for salvation and prayer. His message was relentlessly hopeful: “God is a good God,” “Expect a miracle,” “Something good is going to happen to you.” And he refused to step into the pulpit until he had prayed and sensed the anointing.
- 300+Crusades between 1947 and 1968
- 12,500Seats in his canvas “tent cathedral”
- 1963He chartered Oral Roberts University
What makes his style unique
“Oral shook the landscape with the inescapable reality and practicality of Jesus’ whole ministry.”
— Who wrote this
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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 Oral Roberts — Put the listener inside the story, give a point of contact, and call for a decision..
- 01Why he’s one of the greatsThe story, the numbers and what made his style his own.
- 02What he does7 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 Oral RobertsA fill-in outline in his shape, ready for your own text.
- 06SourcesEvery quote and number, cited.
— The plan
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