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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, 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...

Chapter 3 Now What? Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.—Matt. 7:24 Ethos We have referred to Aristotle’s approaches to persuasive rhetoric as one way to grasp what we mean by sermonic claim. Logos is the appeal to the hearer’s intellect; thus, one aspect of the claim is the theological content of the sermon. Pathos is the appeal to the hearer’s emotions. In terms of preaching, the preacher’s passion during the sermon hopefully
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