Gaming, Online Groups, and Your Church's Action Step
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.
Video Course: How Online Small Groups Work
Online groups are a powerful way to provide an expression of biblical community no matter location limitations or schedule conflicts. In the following video course, you’ll learn why online groups are valuable to your church, the strategy of online groups, the details of what happens during a typical video group, and more. Learn how to launch online groups today in this free 1 hour 21-minute video course!
Be Agnostic with How Online Small Groups Should Meet
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:
3 Steps to Use Facebook's Watch Party for Online Small Groups
Facebook's Watch Party feature is now available to all Facebook Groups around the world! Watch Party is "a new way for people to watch videos on Facebook together in real time."
Oculus Go: Small Groups the Catalyst to Catapult VR into Mainstream
Oculus Go feels like a game changer because some of it's design and features makes it somewhere in the middle of the previously mentioned VR devices. The barrier to entry will attract more users away from the reduced down Cardboard experience and mobile dependent setups because of the easy to use social apps. T
How Saddleback Church Reached 1,000 Online Small Groups
Saddleback's Online Small Groups Pastor and I got together to talk about how the Online Campus reached 1,000 online small groups and other common questions about online groups.
Featured Resources
The same four things, licensed for one reader. If you are buying this for a team, the Church License covers your entire staff and every volunteer for about the cost of three copies.
What you get:
Online Church Is Not the Answer, the full book as a PDF. 227 pages, 15 chapters, each one ending in a big idea you can put in front of your team.
The complete audiobook in MP3. 5 hours 28 minutes, read by Jay.
A Guide to Digital Goal Setting and Online Ministry Planning, including the team assessment.
The Church AI Policy Template, an editable policy your board can approve. What staff and volunteers can and cannot use AI for, when it has to be disclosed, where the line sits in sermon prep and pastoral care, and how member data gets handled.
Read three chapters. If you do not walk away with at least one thing you can change this season, reply to your receipt and I will refund you. Keep the files either way.
Everything in the Digital Strategy Kit, licensed for your entire staff and every volunteer on your team. No seat counting and no per person pricing. Buy it once, download the files, and send them to everybody.
What you get:
Online Church Is Not the Answer, the full book as a PDF. 227 pages, 15 chapters, each one ending in a big idea you can put in front of your team.
The complete audiobook in MP3. 5 hours 28 minutes, read by Jay.
A Guide to Digital Goal Setting and Online Ministry Planning, including the team assessment.
The Church AI Policy Template, an editable policy your board can approve. What staff and volunteers can and cannot use AI for, when it has to be disclosed, where the line sits in sermon prep and pastoral care, and how member data gets handled.
Read three chapters. If you do not walk away with at least one thing your team can change this season, reply to your receipt and I will refund you. Keep the files either way.
Overview of Book: Digital is a confusing concept, and many churches struggle to understand it, with most limiting their digital experience to streaming their church services and nothing more. In this book, you’ll learn how to think strategically about digital strategy and how to best integrate digital ideas into your church that align with your ministry’s in-person objectives. The goal is to disciple more people and not just get an online audience. Readers of this book will learn to cut through the hype and discern the most critical, high-level concepts and find practical ideas they can implement in their church. You’ll walk away with a vision and a pathway to take your church’s digital strategy to the next level and beyond just streaming a church service.