relationship with them. We need more small groups, but we’ve got to have quality control.” God talked back, “Allen, when you say ‘quality control,’ quality is your excuse.” God tends to play rough with me. He was right. To paraphrase Rick Warren, “You can structure for control or for growth, but you can’t structure for both.”[2] My groups system was structured for control. Over the next six months, I experimented with the structure of groups. Many very qualified people who successfully gather groups simply