Interested in leading an adult Bible study class at your church? Use this advice from Max Suther to help your class grow in leaps and bounds!

Adult Bible Study - How To Double Your Class Attendance
By Max Suther

Growing an adult Bible study class is not easy, but there are some simple steps you can take to help grow your class attendance. These few steps have helped my class more than double in just a short time. I hope these tips will help your Sunday school class grow as well.

Make your lesson active not passive. Adults like to participate in the lesson just like kids do. If your style is to talk and everyone just listen you will have a difficult time attracting people to your class. I like to quickly give a brief synopsis of the lesson and then start getting people interested in the lesson by asking questions. I want each person in my class to feel important and they will feel important if their opinion is being heard. Try to focus on one or two questions per lesson. Make it a question that really doesn’t have wrong answers.

Find people to help you take care of the needs of each class member. I have care group leaders whose job it is to take care of five or six people. The care group leader will call each person each week to encourage them to come to class or to find out why they haven’t been coming to class. Sometimes the class member has some problems and the job of the care group leader is to see if they can help. People want to know that they are needed and that someone cares for them, so make sure you take care of the people who are already in your class.

Grow from within. It is a lot easier to get current class members to find other people to attend your Bible study. Each week I encourage my class members to invite others to our class. Have them make a prospect list and take them out to dinner and have a discussion about who are on their list. Getting people to just write down a few prospects is a big step in growing your Sunday school class.

There are many ways to grow your Sunday school class. The above tips do work if you will just try them. Have fun!

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