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Three years ago, when I became pastor of Concord Baptist Church, in the heart of Brooklyn, I had an idea of what would be expected of me.<\/p>\n\n

I was not coming as a stranger. I had served as associate pastor there for five years before taking a senior pastorate in New Jersey.<\/p>\n\n

For 147 years, Concord Baptist has had a vibrant community-centered ministry. It has enjoyed a long tradition of positive pastor-congregation relationships. I am only the tenth pastor in the church’s history.<\/p>\n\n

Recent history is most impressive. Concord has had as many pastors in its first fifteen years as it has had in the 132 years since. Since 1863, I am the fifth pastor. In all these years, thanks be to God, there have also been no splits nor schisms.<\/p>\n\n

Most of my predecessors enjoyed recognition and accomplishment during their pastorates. My immediate predecessor, Gardner C. Taylor, served for 42 years, instilling a vision for the church and community from the Concord pulpit. He is a master preacher, an effective leader, my former boss, a friend, and a second father.<\/p>\n\n

Each of these identities presented me both a blessing and burden. You cannot help but feel the pressure to live up to such a record.<\/p>\n\n

When I first came to this historic pulpit, I wanted to live up to the legacy of eloquence and profundity that emanated from this station. For five years, I had heard Dr. Taylor preach Sunday after Sunday. I studied him closely. He preached with grandeur and power, eloquent beyond words, and the most awesome part of it was that it appeared almost effortless.<\/p>\n\n

I knew, at least I thought I knew, that this was what the church wanted and needed each Sunday.<\/p>\n\n

During my first two years, I worked hard to make my preaching profound. People quoted Dr. Taylor. I wanted to be quotable. I figured that’s what it meant to be pastor of Concord Church.<\/p>\n\n

I worked so hard to say something memorable every week that I almost forgot the central focus of the gospel–to say something salvific.<\/p>\n\n

But another sermon haunted me, one I heard my father–another great preacher–preach during my youth. It was based on 1 Samuel 17, where Saul gave David his armor and the shepherd boy was dwarfed by the king’s equipment that did not fit.<\/p>\n\n

My father’s point: “You’ve got to wear your own armor.” That sermon stayed with me as I struggled to make the transition into this historic parish.<\/p>\n\n

Then something happened that redefined my preaching course. For our Watch Meeting on the last night of 1992, I planned to preach from Psalm 51: “Renew a Right Spirit within Me.” I had been very ill over the Christmas holiday. In fact, I had lost my voice after preaching the Sunday before Christmas, and I was not even sure I was going to be able to preach at all for our Watch Meeting.<\/p>\n\n

Besides my feeling physically subpar, I also began to question the message I was going to deliver Somehow I felt an unction to return to Isaiah 6. I changed the message to “My Prayer for the Church.”<\/p>\n\n

In this sermon, I conveyed my earnest sentiments as a pastor–What was it I saw and believed the church should become? When I got to the verse referring to the angels placing the live coals on Isaiah’s mouth, the Scripture seemed to be speaking directly to me. That’s it! That’s what I want. I want the Lord to burn my mouth. Never mind profundity for profundity’s sake. If my mouth is burned with a heaven-sent fire, then the result will be the work of God.<\/p>\n\n

Since then I have been preaching more freely from the fire in my soul, using the gifts–music and a peculiar sense of humor–that are unique to me.<\/p>\n\n

The wall of the church lounge displays pictures memorializing each of my pastoral predecessors. Underneath the commissioned oil portrait of Dr. Taylor is a frame containing a well-worn piece of the carpet from right behind the pulpit where he stood for thirty-five years.<\/p>\n\n

Before anchoring in and beginning to speak, he had a habit of moving his left foot over the carpet. Many a legend began from this small movement.<\/p>\n\n

Some said he was making the sign of the cross with his foot and thereby standing in the power of the crucified Lord. Others said he, like a batter, was clearing his own place and digging in to take his best swing.<\/p>\n\n

On the framed carpet, you can clearly see where his feet made their impression in the fabric. The engraved label reads: FOOTPRINTS OF THE PREACHER, 1955-1990.<\/p>\n\n

Looking at my own size 9s, I am humbled by the reminder of Dr. Taylor’s size 12s that stood firm and strong for so long.<\/p>\n\n

Shortly after I assumed this charge, I walked through the sanctuary and saw one of our custodians behind the pulpit. The scent of freshly cut carpet filled the air, and there was a new red carpet where the framed carpet had been.<\/p>\n\n

The custodian looked up and said, “Reverend, it’s your carpet now!”<\/p>\n\n

Now, as I step up to that historic pulpit, I have to dig in, too. I know that I’ll have some misses and a few hits.<\/p>\n\n

But I am firmly planted and I know I must take my own swings.<\/p>\n\n

**********************<\/p>\n\n

Gary V. Simpson is pastor of Concord Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York.<\/p>\n\n

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