Praying for Good Book: Editorial Team

We're conscious, here at The Good Book Company, of our need for prayer. We want to be working in God's strength - for God's glory - in God's Kingdom not just pottering about doing what we think is good and right. If you could remembers us in your prayers occasionally, that would be so much appreciated. To that end, this Wednesday we're continuing to pop up some prayer requests - asking you to pray for us department by department. This week, the creative team:

At our end of the office there are seven of us, who select and initiate publishing projects, who encourage and interact with authors, who edit, design proofread and nurse those books to the point where they are ready to be printed and deployed to edify, encourage and challenge. We sometimes even write whole resources ourselves!

• Please pray for our personal walk with Christ. We want to be professional and produce excellent books. But we also want to work as those who love Christ and his gospel and are walking in fellowship with him day by day.
• Please pray that we would know our Bibles. It is a huge privilege to be working day by day on materials that help grow the Kingdom of God. But we are very aware of our role in promoting and defending truth, and refuting error. We need God's help not to get that the wrong way round!
• Pray that we would continue to be innovative in the ways we present the gospel. It is, of course the same unchanging Gospel: Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. But our culture changes, and the ways in which people hear change. We want to be responsive to that, but without getting gimmicky. So pray we would serve the Lord and his people with new materials that help bring Jesus to the next generation in fresh and engaging ways.
• Pray for wise choices: Scripture warns us that "of the making of many books there is no end". A typical new manuscripts meeting for us will have us making decisions about maybe a dozen books - of which we may only realistically be able to produce three or four. We want to give ourselves to the things that will be most effective in building God's Kingdom, but not at the expense of serving some "niche needs" that would otherwise not be met. We need the wisdom that comes from heaven to make these decisions.

And finally, do pray for us by name: Tim, Jackie, Carl, Rachel, Ann, Alison and Andre are all real people engaged in local church ministry, and dealing with busy and stressful family lives at the same time as working at The Good Book Company. Be our partners as we seek to bring glory to Christ in our personal lives, as well as through our publishing ministry.