Sermon Tone Analysis

To increase commitment:

Model commitment to your group by being on time, prepared, faithful in attendance, and fully engaged throughout the meeting.

model commitment to your group

Cast vision for what you hope the group will become.

By being on time, prepared, faithful in attendance, and fully engaged throughout the meeting.Cast vision for what you hope the group will become.•

through your vision, most people will see that being part of this group requires commitment.•

try to be compelling – show people how this group will benefit them!• involve group members in determining a vision.

Ask people to share what a truly meaningful care group would look like to them.Build a ownership by defining together, and a care group meeting, goals for the group.Ensure that your group has an understood purpose that goes beyond friendship.

Emphasize that you hope to learn together through study, accomplish together through service.Stress how faithful attendance and active participation is important for the health of the whole group.Make sure everyone in the group has compatible schedules.

If there are ongoing conflicts, work to connect some people with groups that would better accommodate their schedules.Try to establish a regular, meeting schedule.

Don't plan every meeting around members schedules.

Plan your meetings far in advance.Establish a regular, centralized meeting location.

Rotating locations can be helpful to build relationships, but usually they don't help to build commitment.Maximize the "accessibility" of the group by ending the structured part of the meeting within two hours of your stated start time.•

The shorter the meeting, the more people will commit to attending.•

have an unstructured time for social interaction after the meeting, not before it.

This allows people to stay later if they choose, while those who need to leave earlier can easily do so.•

don't make your meeting so short that very little study and prayer takes place however!Create a care group covenant and have all the members sign this document.Set the bar high for group members.

Don't let the group always accommodate the least committed person.Delegate responsibilities to other group members i.e. providing food, organizing children's games, leading prayer times etc.Talk one-on-one with non-– committed members and challenge them to become more committed.

Through your vision, most people will see that being part of this group requires commitment.

Try to be compelling – show people how this group will benefit them!

• try to be compelling – show people how this group will benefit them!

• involve group members in determining a vision.

Involve group members in determining a vision.

Ask people to share what a truly meaningful care group would look like to them.

Ask people to share what a truly meaningful care group would look like to them.

Build a ownership by defining together, and a care group meeting, goals for the group.

Ensure that your group has an understood purpose that goes beyond friendship.

Emphasize that you hope to learn together through study, accomplish together through service.

Stress how faithful attendance and active participation is important for the health of the whole group.

Make sure everyone in the group has compatible schedules.

If there are ongoing conflicts, work to connect some people with groups that would better accommodate their schedules.

Try to establish a regular, meeting schedule.

Don't plan every meeting around members schedules.

Build a ownership by defining together, (in a care group meeting), goals for the group.

Ensure that your group has an understood purpose that goes beyond friendship.

Emphasize what you hope to learn together through study, accomplish together through service.

Emphasize what you hope to learn together through study, accomplish together through service.

Stress how faithful attendance and active participation is important for the health of the whole group.

Make sure everyone in the group has compatible schedules.

If there are ongoing conflicts, work to connect some people with groups that would better accommodate their schedules.

Try to establish a regular, meeting schedule.

Don't plan every meeting around members schedules.

Plan your meetings far in advance.

Establish a regular, centralized meeting location.

Rotating locations can be helpful to build relationships, but usually they don't help to build commitment.

Rotating locations can be helpful to build relationships, but usually they don't help to build commitment.

Maximize the "accessibility" of the group by ending the structured part of the meeting within two hours of your stated start time.

• The shorter the meeting, the more people will commit to attending.

The shorter the meeting, the more people will commit to attending.

• have an unstructured time for social interaction after the meeting, not before it.

Have an unstructured time for social interaction after the meeting, not before it.

This allows people to stay later if they choose, while those who need to leave earlier can easily do so.

This allows people to stay later if they choose, while those who need to leave earlier can easily do so.

Don't make your meeting so short that very little study and prayer takes place however!

don't make your meeting so short that very little study and prayer takes place however!

Create a care group covenant and have all the members sign this document.

Set the bar high for group members.

Don't let the group always accommodate the least committed person.

Don't let the group always accommodate the least committed person.

Delegate responsibilities to other group members i.e. providing food, organizing children's games, leading prayer times etc.

Delegate responsibilities to other group members i.e. providing food, organizing children's games, leading prayer times etc.

Talk one-on-one with non-committed members and challenge them to become more committed.