spend $3 million for a bigger building or reorganize somehow to make do with what we had. The group was invited to prepare a topical study for the whole church to investigate scriptural principles of congregational life. The eight-week series helped shape our eventual decision to divide the congregation into three working communities, each with its own meeting time on Sunday, its own cluster of elders, and its own network of house groups. Not only were we better able to handle 600 people in our small