Shaping the Claim: Moving from Text to Sermon (Elements of Preaching)

McMickle, Marvin A. [Editor]

ISBN 10: 0800604296 / ISBN 13: 9780800604295

Published by Fortress Press, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shaping the Claim: Moving from Text to Sermon (Elements of Preaching)
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0800604296
• ISBN 13: 9780800604295
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 5 ounces

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Synopsis

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?

About the Author

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).