Gardner C. Taylor is pastor emeritus of Concord Baptist Church of Christ in Brooklyn, N.Y., having served there for forty-two years. He taught homiletics at Harvard Divinity School and at various times has been named the “dean of the nation’s black preachers” (Time) and “one of the twelve greatest preachers in the English speaking world” (Newsweek). He is author of the six-volume series The Words of Gardner Taylor, and co-author of Perfecting the Pastor’s Art, all published by Judson Press.