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Most books about prayer are written from the vantage point of answered prayer. God on Mute is different — and that difference is what has made it one of the most important Christian books of recent decades, cited by Premier Christianity among those that have genuinely shaped the Church.
Pete Greig is one of the founders of the 24-7 Prayer movement, a global wave of non-stop prayer that began in a small room in Chichester in 1999. You might expect such a man to have a triumphalist view of prayer. Instead, he wrote a book about the times it doesn't seem to work — prompted by his wife Sammy's sudden and life-threatening illness shortly after the movement began.
The book is structured around the three days between Good Friday and Easter Sunday — the silence of Holy Saturday — and it explores every dimension of unanswered prayer with theological depth, emotional honesty, and hard-won pastoral wisdom. It doesn't offer cheap comfort. It offers something better: company in the dark, and the conviction that silence is not the same as absence.
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About the Author: Pete Greig is the founder of the 24-7 Prayer movement and senior pastor of Emmaus Rd Church in Guildford. His other widely-read books include How to Pray, Dirty Glory and How to Hear God and most recently as a children’s edition How to Hear God: A Guide for Young Explorers.
