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Preach Like Origen
of Alexandria.
Preach the passage read: plain story first, then the soul, then Christ.
- ✓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 the passage read: plain story first, then the soul, then Christ.
Origen was born in Alexandria around 185, became a teacher of new believers there at eighteen, and spent his last two decades in Caesarea on the coast of Palestine, where he preached to the church week after week. His homilies are some of the oldest Christian sermons we still have, taken down by stenographers as he spoke. His secret: he preached the passage the reader had just read, phrase by phrase, and he would not let a verse go until it had spoken on three levels. First the plain story (“believe that it happened truly”), then what it says to your soul today, then how it shows Christ. He asked hard questions of the text out loud, stopped in the middle of the sermon to pray for light, and kept turning to the room with “you.”
- 7Stenographers his patron supplied to record him
- 60His age before he let his sermons be recorded
- 16Surviving homilies on Genesis
What makes his style unique
“Like some spark lighting upon our inmost soul, love was kindled and burst into flame within us.”
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Preach Like Origen — Preach the passage read: plain story first, then the soul, then Christ..
- 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 OrigenA fill-in outline in his shape, ready for your own text.
- 06SourcesEvery quote and number, cited.
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