Description: The gospel of the kingdom will ignite the earth, leading to kingdom power, kingdom love, and the greatest kingdom harvest the world has ever seen.
Brief description: Jack R. Taylor's name has become synonymous with the message of the kingdom of God and the Spirit-filled life. He served for nearly seventeen years as pastor of the Castle Hills First Baptist Church, San Antonio, Texas, where God moved in revival, with an estimated two thousand people saved in the first six months. Since then, as president of Dimensions Ministries, Jack has pursued an itinerant ministry that has lasted almost forty years. Jack is a graduate of Hardin-Simmons University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and he received an honorary doctorate from St. Thomas Christian College in Jacksonville, Florida. In addition to Cosmic Initiative, he is the author of thirteen books, including the best-selling The Key to Triumphant Living, with one million copies in print.Jack has two children, six grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. He and his first wife, Barbara, were married for more than forty-seven years until she succumbed to cancer in 2001. In 2002, he married Jerry, who passed away after her own battle with cancer. Since 2004, Jack has been married to Friede, who travels and ministers with him.Jack is currently working with his son, Tim, to develop a network of spiritual sons and daughters across the world. For most of his ministry, Jack has instinctively fathered spiritual children in the ministry, counseling and encouraging young men and women to seek and expand the kingdom of God; today, some two hundred people formally consider Jack Taylor their spiritual father and are connected to him through Sonslink, a ministry committed to modeling the biblical father-son paradigm. Jack and Tim continue to explore and expound on this paradigm as the most significant relationship in the kingdom of God, believing it to be the context for abundant living as well as kingdom expansion.
Review Quotes: Twenty-five years ago, I was struggling to pastorally lead the church toward cultural relevance and gospel impact. A man who is deeply loved and admired humbly advised me that the only way to be consistently relevant was to seek and find the Kingdom. He was right! Today, I lead an international mission organization challenged by multicultural environments in more than seventy countries. Jack Taylor's advice those many years ago served to prepare me for this assignment. May Cosmic Initiative produce in you the same insatiable hunger that all "Kingdom adventurers" share for comprehending and agreeing with God's eternal rule and reign.--Bill Snell
President, Missionary Ventures, International