Kent Carlson

Exploring the Life and Calling

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Gary Black Jr. has courageously pursued a thoroughly countercultural and crazy thing. He has written a book that unapologetically proclaims that the world needs professional ministers who not only have theological degrees, but who actually have the training and character to lead a community of people into a transformative encounter with the living God. In a world that increasingly views the professional minister as irrelevant or even silly, Black presents a renewed and stirring vision of theological education that is able to produce men and women who intimately know about life in the Kingdom of God. Our world is desperate for this.”