Three Rooms by Jo Hamya

Three Rooms by Jo Hamya

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?

JO HAMYA was born in London in 1997. After living in Miami for a few years, she completed an English degree at King's College London and a MSt in contemporary literature and culture at Oxford University. There, she divided her research between updating twentieth-century cultural theory into twenty-first-century digital contexts, and the impact of social media on form and questions of identity in contemporary women's writing. Since leaving Oxford, she has worked as a copyeditor for Tatler and edited manuscripts subsequently published by Edinburgh University Press and Doubleday UK. She has also written for the Financial Times.Three Rooms is her first novel. She lives in London.