My next coaching network meets for the first time a week from Friday. Before we gather, I asked the guys involved to rank the strategic topics we might discuss. Here’s how they ranked the proposed topics:

1. Personal Development
2. Leading Up/Laterally
3. Discipleship strategy
4. Growth Strategies
5. Volunteer strategy
6. Communications
7. Structure
8. Staffing
9. Multi-site
10. Financial stewardship
11. Series planning

Want to know something funny? With the exception of possibly financial stewardship, I probably would have ranked those topics completely the opposite way. Isn’t God funny? He pulled together a group of guys that are going to stretch me. Needless to say, I’m probably the one who’s going to do the most learning over these next six months.

By the way, what topic do you think is missing from the list? If you were going to talk with a group of your peers about general ministry strategy, what would you want to discuss?

If you don’t have anything important on your schedule tomorrow afternoon (Thursday, December 11), you may want to join us for a free webcast. I’ll be at our Greenville campus meeting with a handful of ministry leaders who are joining us for our all-staff meeting. They’ll be asking questions. I’ll try to provide answers or ask more questions. I’ll also be taking questions from webcast viewers. It’ll be live. And, because I know you’re cheap, it’ll be free.

Here are the details:

• First session starts at 1:15-ish (Eastern time)
• Second session starts at 2:30-ish (Eastern time)
• Live video webcast will be on my Mogulus channel.
• Watch my Twitter updates for exact start times.

Feel free to start asking questions by leaving comments on this post. By the way, I happen to believe there are stupid questions. I can’t make any promises that I’ll answer all the questions I receive. Just because I don’t answer your question, though, doesn’t necessarily mean I think it’s one of the stupid ones…though it could be.

You’ll see me tomorrow. Hope to see you in the chat room.