Your church can launch online small groups this year! Games like Fortnite and others have skyrocketed in popularity, but this trend existed with early versions of Halo on Xbox. The thing is online gaming today is a global community activity, and your church should learn from this trend. Gaming is popular because it's done with others (hint, hint FELLOWSHIP). I'll recommend a simple action step to get your online small group offering off the ground at the end.

It turns out being agnostic isn't always bad. One of the significant factors in the growth of online small groups at my church was not forcing how groups should meet virtually. People have preferences. Look at these stats as of 2018: