Tall Skinny Kiwi lists these common themes which he's seen in rapidly growing Jesus movements among young people in south Asia. We've simplified them in the folloing list or read the full article on his blog here

Thirteen Practices for vibrant Jesus Movements

1. Bible study - simple and regular discipleship by obedience to the Bible.
   1. What does it say?
   2. What does it say to me?
   3. What am going to do about it?
       
2. Open houses - hospitable to visitors who came day or night.
    
3. Fringe focus - primarily people joined from the edges of society.
    
4. Simple habits - nothing took a lot of skill.
    
5. Good business products! - they lived from little businesses they ran together.
    
6. Rehabilitation - a building for rehabilitation of drug addicts, open to all, a place for refreshment.
    
7. Native flavour - not importing many songs from outside.
    
8. Daily rhythms - weekly services was not enough - some met daily for short times.
    
9. Not outreach TO but outreach WITH others - people of other faiths would hep them with their work with the poor.
    
10. Something for the whole family - outreach often started with a young person and reached the family by visiting.
     
11. Prayer - a normal part of ALL they did, many physical healings, supernatural was accepted as normal.
     
12. Grace - people failed and messed up but were relaunched again as disciples.
     
13. Changing lives - focus was intentionally on this and not growing in size which happened rapidly.

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