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Preach Like Oswald
Chambers.
State the conclusion, split the text in three, pin a verse to each head, then stop.
- ✓9 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
State the conclusion, split the text in three, pin a verse to each head, then stop.
The Edwardian holiness revival and the desert camps of the First World War. Oswald Chambers taught and preached in Britain, America and Japan, ran a small Bible college in London, and spent his last two years as a YMCA chaplain to soldiers in Egypt. He left no sermon manuscripts: every book under his name, My Utmost for His Highest included, was compiled after his death from his wife Biddy’s verbatim shorthand of his talks, lectures and sermons. His secret: he started with the conclusion. A Chambers talk opens on one hard sentence (“The test of spiritual life is the power to descend”), then divides the text into three sound-matched heads, pins a verse to every head and sub-head, and drives each one home with a single everyday image and a line people could carry out the door. He brought the Cross in wherever the argument needed it, not only at the end, and he finished on a question or a verse and stopped.
- 250words a minute: Biddy’s shorthand speed
- 39+languages My Utmost is translated into
- 13M+copies of My Utmost printed
What makes his style unique
“It was almost worth enlisting to hear Oswald Chambers speak.”
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What’s inside
Preach Like Oswald Chambers — State the conclusion, split the text in three, pin a verse to each head, then stop..
- 01Why he’s one of the greatsThe story, the numbers and what made his style his own.
- 02What he does9 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 Oswald ChambersA fill-in outline in his shape, ready for your own text.
- 06SourcesEvery quote and number, cited.
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