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

Shaping the Claim helps the preacher discover the core of the message to be preached - the sermonic claim. In order to be effective says McMickle 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. In order to discover the biblical claim that a sermon should make upon a particular congregation at a particular time McMickle presents a helpful three-step process: (1) What? (2) So What? and (3) Now What? The book is keyed to online sermon samples and other Web-based features such as sermon illustrations and art.