Size Doesn’t Matter

I think one way to make your groups more inviting is to genuinely be concerned about each individual.  That is one of the reasons we don’t want our groups to grow really large.  Breaking them off when we reach a certain number actually helps us to be able to build relationships.

When we get too large, there is not enough time to really get to hear from everyone and so concern for individuals gets lost in the mix.  Of course, we should be following up on our people during the week but that gets harder the larger the group.  So what do we do?

We work on building other leaders to take the group when we split them due to size.  We should always be looking for potential leaders in our groups that will help us while the group is small. That way, when we are ready to split the group, people will be ready to go and grow because they have already built a relationship with the “assistant” leader. As in any leadership position, it’s not about us but about the people we have been put in charge of.

Here’s one of the “hangups” to the splitting process.  We sometimes don’t want to let go.  If not kept in check, this could cause us to be territorial and think that the group we are leading is our group and no one else. We could become overly possessive.  Let’s not be leaders that are like this.  Let’s become leaders that want to see the people grow, more groups added and ultimately the kingdom of God grow.

Size doesn’t matter when it’s only the size of our group.  We are here to build God’s thing not our thing.  So let’s get that healthy attitude of living for the good of others.  Then we can develop those genuine relationships.  God gets glorified when we do this and we have better REAL Groups.

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