Rick Edwards

As a pastor and author, Rick Edwards has been in ministry for more than four decades. Rick has served churches in Texas, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. He began his publishing career in 1990 as a Bible study curriculum editor at a large church resource publishing house. He later managed a publishing component for a publicly-traded media company for more than a decade. Now he's active as a preacher, Bible teacher, author, and publisher. He manages a growing network of Christian writers and authors who are anxious to serve the local church with both fiction and non-fiction content.

Rick is candid about his failures and successes as he sees God using all of his life experiences to prepare him for a meaningful ministry. "I believe God has called me to help the church teach His story to successive generations," he says. "I have to be transparent about my personal journey if I really hope to influence successive generations."

Operating under the conviction that a person's behavior is shaped by his or her worldview, Edwards is passionate about influencing the way people think through effective discipleship in the local church. "I'm convinced that people live out of their individual worldviews whether they realize it or not or whether they do so intentionally or not," he argues. "I also believe a person's individual worldview is shaped by his or her own story. If we want our churches to effect genuine change in a person's worldview, then we must influence the way a person thinks about or perceives his or her story."

These convictions are driving Edwards to utilize emerging publishing vehicles to help Christian authors grow their audiences, expand their influence, and speak to the local church and broader Christian audience. "Digital publishing and the Internet are providing the contemporary church with astounding opportunities to impact lives and the global culture," Rick notes. "You don't have to be a well-known, best-selling author to publish to a growing audience. You just need to have something of substance to say and a strategy for saying it."