It's almost time...

You can now pre-order my book, so it's time to get over my self-promotion anxiety.

Well, here it is. A moment that for a while neither I nor my publisher thought would ever arrive. My first book, The Child In God’s Church, is now available for pre-order and will be out in the real world on 28th January. And to be honest, I have a few conflicting feelings about the next few weeks and months in particular.

I’m not naturally a good self-promoter. I love teaching, preaching, lecturing and training others. I am comfortable up in front of a congregation, class or crowd. However, in these circumstances, I don’t feel like it is me that I am drawing attention to, but the content, the idea, the passage of scripture, or the particular strategy of children’s or intergenerational ministry that I am teaching.

Promoting ‘Tim’, on the other hand… I’d rather slink back into the bushes while letting the ideas percolate in people’s minds and hearts. Perhaps this is what those in the creative arts mean when they talk about getting out of the way and letting the art speak for itself.

But n…