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Shaping the Claim

Moving from Text to Sermon
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Shaping the Claim helps the preacherdiscover the core of the message to bepreached - the sermonic "claim." In order to be effective, says McMickle,a sermon needs to address the hearersat three distinct levels; the head orthe intellect, the heart or passionand conviction, and the hand or anexpected and desired response. In orderto discover the biblical "claim" that asermon should make upon a particularcongregation at a particular time,McMickle presents a helpful three-step process: (1) What? (2) So What? and (3)Now What?
Marvin A. McMikle, Ph.D., is the pastor of Antioch Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio, and professor of homiletics at Ashland Theological Seminary in Ashland, Ohio. He is the author of From Pulpit to Politics: Reflections on the Separation of Church and State (1998).
"Shaping the Claim is full of practical wisdom for the preacher, homiletics teacher, and student. McMickle knows how to make it plain." -- James Henry Harris "Virginia Union University, School of Theology"
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