I wish I had an answer but we’ve not had the multiplying small groups thing really in any formal sense. Discipleship pairs / tiny groups have grown and multiplied, mostly through making things as simple and transferable as possible and by taking a personal interest in communicating to those demonstrating influence the desire to remove “centralized” people from the multiplication.

We’ve seen a lot more growth in people taking active discipleship roles in each other’s lives, but the emergence of simpler churches and the like has been slow and embryonic… I think there is a lot of cultural baggage / non-new disciples / community(not communitas) stuff going on currently. So I’m trying to be patient and allow the spirit to work in ways only it can, keeping an eye out for newer “blood” I can be involved with more directly.

Historically, during our Kairos small groups, facilitators were born and raised out of a sort of mini-mentorship / friendship type deal. It was pretty organic compared to the programmatic “coaching” type strategies, but it was still somewhat programmatic (since the environment was somewhat programmatic too).

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