This summer, in between speaking gigs on the weekends and weekday trips to Whitewater with my kids, I will be working on a small group curriculum that I hope will eventually become the core text for my next book. This past weekend I spent a solid 8 hours outlining, reading and thinking about what I believe God is leading me to pen.
Although I am proud of my first book, I look back on the process and can’t help but wish that I had taken more time to study, research and ask questions. So this time around I’m planning to take my time. To slow down (something I don’t do well) to seek the answers to the problems and questions facing so many of us today.
I am not sure what the core question is quite yet, but I know that in all the spaces and places I visit, there is a recurring theme emerging. From pastors and CEO’s to regular Joe’s like me. Everyone is facing a similar challenge. A struggle, a pain, a fear that is crippling growth and keeping us from experiencing the freedom and abundant life God created us all to live.
We all seem to have one leg in the grips of the enemy. Like we are in the middle of a WWE ring and someone has a grasp around our ankle and with all his might he’s trying to pull us out.
How do we kick him loose?
How do we get out of the ring?
Better yet, how do we avoid ever being in that ring again?!
It’s this thought of prevention, protection and in the end action that I believe God is leading me towards in this next project. But to get there with any relevance or relationship to the world I need to really know what you, the person living in the ring, are really up against.
What are your troubles? What’s holding you back? What’s bringing you down?
In the coming weeks I hope you as a reader will feel a certain trust with me and the other readers to provide answers to some of these questions. I hope you might even provide feedback, helpful hints or tips as you read. I believe that if as a community we strive for vulnerability and honesty then maybe, just maybe we might find some centralized answers to the problems that we all truly face.
So without further delay or explanation, I provide you the first question. Please provide an answer to the question in the comments section below or if you’d rather you can email me your response at [email protected].
….one more thing, everyone who helps along this journey, providing answers, questions, etc., will be listed in the next book. That is, if you are ok with it.

Question 1: Who is the most important person in your life? (Walking this earth) 

Before you write down who this person is, search your heart and think through what the word important means?
Definition of Important:  Strongly affecting the course of events or the nature of things, having authority over.
Other examples of important would be, Significant, Above All, Vital, Imperative, Chief, Essential