About

Jim Pruitt became a Christian in 1971 at the age of 13. At about the same time, he took up bass guitar and played in several Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) bands in the late 70s and 80s. Raised as a Southern Baptist and trained in evangelism by Campus Crusade for Christ, he was swept up in the last vestiges of the “Jesus Movement.” However, in his latter years, he fell from the faith and considered himself an agnostic for over two decades. Through the events of 9/11 and equally devastating events in his personal life that occurred about the same time, God brought him to repentance and restored him.

With his renewed faith came a renewed desire to be involved in CCM again. However, the Christian music world he found was very different from the one he remembered. But many of the struggles and questions remained the same. Wrestling with these issues gave birth to his first book “Contemporary Christian Musician’s Survival Manual” in 2003.

He also began to write on his website cyshift.com articles where he expressed the passions, issues, and burdens that God had laid on his heart and he continues to post his writings there to this day.

The events of 9/11 spawned the idea for Jim’s latest work “Measure of Faith.” Over 4 years in the making and the result of considerable research, it takes you inside the world of Islam and the Hajj and confronts it in a way never done before. Similar to the works of Tom Clancy but with a strong theological aspect, this book pulls no punches and takes you on a breathless ride to its staggering finale. It will cause readers to reevaluate what they believe about Islam…and about God. After reading it, you will understand why the author refers to it as a “a parable of God’s judgment.”

You can contact Jim at or via snail mail at:

Jim Pruitt
P.O. Box 5442
Canton, GA 30114