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If we look at just the leaders who could not, for whatever reason, move their PGMs to an online format, the conclusion we reach is that 61% of them simply refused to declare their PGMs as dead, even though they weren't able to meet in person. For these leaders, the PGM is definitely functioning, even though it’s not meeting. What can we learn from these leaders about church membership during this time of pandemic?

For Trotman, evangelistic follow-up generated reproduction and after that, the multiplication of reproducers. His favorite illustration for this truth was 2 Timothy 2:2, where we see four spiritual generations: Paul, Timothy, the faithful men, and others.

Breaking down the Gospels, Moore sees that Jesus had a private ministry, concentrating on individuals in a way that was much more strategic than his ministry to the masses.  For him, if we want to copy Jesus’ manner of making disciples, we should train converts to reach others.

Are small multiplier groups found in the New Testament? Are they, in fact, coherent with a biblical ecclesiology? What is the relationship between small groups and church polity?

For Joel Comiskey, Jesus modeled what should be the ideal discipleship that the apostles - and we, today - should imitate, that is, the discipleship that happens within a small group of disciples.

Perhaps it is because we have bent so much towards a multiplying discipleship that we eventually began to neglect the roles of the preaching of the Word, church discipline and membership on the formation of disciples. If we don’t want to take this risk, I believe we should read and listen more to Mark Dever.