Shaping the Claim (Elements Of Preaching Series)

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Shaping the Claim helps the preacher discover the core of the message to be preached-the sermonic "claim." In order to be effective, a sermon needs to address the hearers at three distinct levels: the head or the intellect, the heart or passion and conviction, and the hand or an expected and desired response. The sermonic claim is the way in which the sermon engages the listener at all three levels, sometimes sequentially and sometimes simultaneously. In order to discover this "claim" that a sermon should make Marvin McMickle presents a helpful three-step process to craft such a message, which he names (1) What to Preach? (2) So What? and (3) Now What? Book jacket.