{"id":1659,"date":"2018-07-08T02:42:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T02:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2018-07-08T02:42:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T02:42:05","slug":"apologetics-and-the-if-gathering-with-cedric-fisher-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/?p=1659","title":{"rendered":"APOLOGETICS AND THE “IF: GATHERING” WITH CEDRIC FISHER (PART ONE)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Berean Call\u00a0Radio\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Tom: Today I\u2019ll be talking with Cedric Fisher. He writes for Lighthouse Trails Publishers, and his apologetics website is truthkeepers.com. Now, today and next week, the Lord willing, we\u2019ll be discussing two of his booklets that we co-publish with Lighthouse Trails.<\/p>\n

Cedric, thanks for joining me on Search the Scriptures 24\/7.<\/p>\n

Cedric: Thank you for inviting me.<\/p>\n

Tom: Now, before we get to our topic for the first part of our discussion, Cedric, I\u2019d like you to tell us what motivated you to get into apologetics. For our listeners that aren\u2019t familiar with that term (they probably are), it\u2019s really just the defense of the Christian faith. So what motivated you?<\/p>\n

Cedric: Well, first I\u2019d like to make it clear I\u2019m not a trained apologist but just a guy who began defending God\u2019s truth several decades ago. I think it began after I had several debates with friends who had gotten into the word of faith movement, and it just escalated from there when I kept running into people that would say things I knew didn\u2019t agree with God\u2019s Word. I think the John Ankerberg Showwas the main inspiration in my early years, and other ones that were defending the truth, and it was just an eye-opening experience for me when I first saw that, and I sat and watched, mesmerized by the way that they could handle all these very difficult and sometimes complex questions. And, of course, later on I read books \u2013 The Seduction of Christianity by one of your \u2013 maybe your main mentor and friend, Dave Hunt \u2013 and other things, until, really, I just felt like that\u2019s what God wanted me to do, along with my pastoring, was to defend His truth.<\/p>\n

And so about 1993, I put up a website, began to write articles, and then I really, really found out about debates! But I found out that you develop a confidence, you develop a deep peace in you, when you study God\u2019s Word and you know what it means, you understand what it means, and you can apply it perfectly in the light of these heresies \u2013 in the dark of these heresies, actually \u2013 and help people to understand what the truth really is.<\/p>\n

Tom: Yeah. That\u2019s certainly \u2013 much of what you said is on our heart with what we do here at The Berean Call. But, Cedric, your experience as a pastor, why do you think \u2013 and maybe I\u2019m missing the boat here \u2013 but why do you think that many churches are reluctant to get involved in apologetics? And especially those churches that would consider themselves to be Bible-based?<\/p>\n

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Berean Call\u00a0Radio\u00a0 Tom: Today I\u2019ll be talking with Cedric Fisher. He writes for Lighthouse Trails Publishers, and his apologetics website is truthkeepers.com. Now, today and next week, the Lord willing, we\u2019ll be discussing two of his booklets that we co-publish with Lighthouse Trails. Cedric, thanks for joining me on Search the Scriptures 24\/7. Cedric: Thank […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paIm2N-qL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1660,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions\/1660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}