Pastor Taylor is a native of Pine Bluff and a graduate of Pine Bluff High School.  He attended Ouachita Baptist University and received his B.A. in 1967.  He did graduate Work at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in Mill Valley, California. He received his Master of Divinity degree from there in 1970 and the Doctor of Ministry degree in 1980.  While attending Seminary, Pastor Taylor served as a Student Chaplain at San Quentin State Prison for two years.  He has served as Pastor in Arkansas, Chicago and the San Francisco Bay area.  Pastor Taylor and his wife JoAnne have two grown children and twelve grandchildren.
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What do you do when you hear something you don’t believe?  Don’t like?  Or don’t agree with? Most often we complain and find fault.  When news of Peter’s visit to the house of Cornelius reached the Jews in Jerusalem they began to complain. Peter walks home and right into a storm of protest.  Remember, when Jesus said to the disciples at his ascension… You are to be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the end of the world…They went back to Jerusalem as great witnesses.  But did not venture outside the city for nearly 10 years.  It took persecution to get the believers out of Jerusalem…and it took an angel to get Peter into the house of Cornelius. I wonder sometimes what it will take to awaken the church today to the mission God has for her in our increasingly lost world.