“do-it-yourself” religion that reinforced “individualized faith.” The most common reason why people say they join and stay with small groups is for what they receive for their own highly personalized needs and goals; small groups encourage a “private and inward focused” spirituality that also “permits traditional communities to be abandoned.”[6] But perhaps an even more important question to ask is whether our church strategies are a genuine reflection of who God is. You see, while I believe that