William Dwight McKissic, Sr. (born 1958) is a prominent African-American Southern Baptist minister from Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
McKissic is a controversial leader of the Bapticostal movement, marked by rejection of cessationism and support of the charismatic gifts.
McKissic graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Christian Studies from Ouachita Baptist University in 1978.
Dwight McKissic gave a sermon during a chapel service to students attending Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and announced that he speaks in tongues and uses a private prayer language and emphasized not taking a cessationist view of the charismatic gifts.
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary quickly distanced itself from McKissic's comments saying, However, shortly after his election as president of the Convention, Rev.