How to Get Your Entire Congregation Committed to the Course
- Make plans for a general assembly when all members are present – teenagers through adults.
- Advertise two weeks. Stir their interest. You are going to present a program to help them grow spiritually. Assure them you have a new, easy, proven method of memorizing that works. Anyone who can count to 10 can complete the course.
- Emphasize you have a course that takes about 10 minutes a day in the home that will equip them with the equivalent to almost a year in Bible college in one year; important principles broken into key thoughts and scripture verses to memorize.
- Preach the outline message on “Why Memorize Scriptures” and do some reference work with good illustrations to drive home your points.
- When you conclude the message, get raised hands from those who will make a commitment to take the course. Please do not have them bow heads; all are to be looking. Those who raise their hands encourage others to do likewise.
- Names should go on charts and on bulletin boards one week after commitment is made.
- Supervisors are selected to oversee a 12-person discipleship group. In the groups, they oversee; four instructors over two pupils each. They will not continue unless this procedure is followed.
- Hold a celebration for those who complete the course.