1. Always ask missionary questions, not just when your missional community forms. For example: “What do the 
people we are engaging fear, value, or need?” Allow those answers shape how you respond in mission to them, i.e. married university students don’t have a need for shelter and food but they do feel a need for community and education. How could that shape your mission to students? How do their responses change the way you articulate the gospel? See some of Tim Chester’s helpful comments on Identity and Decisions in Community.
2. Pastor people through missional community multiplication. When multiplying a missional community, be sure to identify the general anxiety in a group publicly and pastor the community thru it in the gospel, i.e. “Hey guys, I sense some of you are nervous or disappointed about losing our people to a new mission?” Then after surfacing the anxiety, ask people how we can apply the gospel to that anxiety? Guide the community from anxiety to celebration by hosting a joint party for a new missional community. Multiplication is a celebratory birth, not a mourning of a death. It’s adding to the family!
3. When making decisions that affect the whole group, make them in community, not just “from the top.” For example, the appointment of a new leader in training, the timing and location of a multiplication, should all be a community discussion not a decision handed down from leadership. Talk things through, create space for unity, shared wisdom, united mission.
4. When settling on a missional focus be discerning in your partnerships. Is it okay to share a mission in community with another missional community? As long as there is enough work, it is within your geography, and you can eventually reproduce that mission in your context. Don’t “commute” to your mission. Mission is where you live. Although you can share some mission across missional communities, remember there are two other layers of mission that you can not share: 1) Mission as Neighborhood 2) Mission as Vocation.