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TechnoratiCP: You're also working on a new book to debunk what you call “culture lies” (i.e., “lies” surrounding evolution, sanctity of life and the existence of God). These have always been challenges that Christians have tried to defend their faith against but the battle seems even more intense today. Can you tell me about your book and how you plan to penetrate the truth in a society that seems to have become more hardened to it?
Fisher: The book is yet untitled but it’s shaping up to be a four-part book. The first part will look at how media became highly secularized in the 1950s and 60s. That’s been well-documented so that will be more of a review. The second section will talk about how that secularization has influenced the culture. I think we have some unique perspective on that. The third section will look at how I believe God is orchestrating a tearing down of that media structure meaning the media elite who have controlled the messaging for so many years to America – and that messaging has been vastly godless – is about to become replaced with a brand new structure. And there are a host of reasons – which I’m outlining in the book – why that’s occurring. A lot of it has to do with technology, the rise of talk radio, the decline of the publishing industry. There’s a whole lot of economic and technological factors involved with that. The end result is the Church – and CRM (Coral Ridge Ministries) in particular, because I’m writing it as a representative of CRM – has fabulous opportunity to reach far more people for less dollars than it ever has in the past. The nonprofit church world is becoming competitive with the multimillion dollar media conglomerate because of this media conversion.
Section number four is simply a plan of how we’re going to do that specifically, outlining exactly how we’re going to gain market share, if you will, back from the mainstream media, not for political purposes – because that’s happening in other sectors – but for scriptural purposes, for moral and cultural purposes. It’s like a pitch dark room. If you’re standing in a pitch dark room – in many ways the American culture has become that – and you light one match, it transforms the room. I don’t think it’s going to take a whole lot of absolute truth to begin to seriously dispel 50 years of bad lying. And the technology and the media conversion is making that possible. So I’ll outline how we’re going to gain some ground back for Jesus Christ.
CP: When is that coming out?
Fisher: We are producing a book and there’s going to be a television special around the same issue. The end of February is the goal.
CP: You have something new at next year's Truths that Transform America conference, called "Pastors, Pulpits, and Politics," which supports the right for pastors to speak on social issues from the pulpit. Is this part of the effort by conservative groups such as Family Research Council and Focus on the Family who had issued a letter to pastors telling them that they have the right to speak on these issues?
Fisher: The last two hours of that conference is a special session called ‘Pastors, Pulpits, and Politics.’ We’re doing something very unique. We’re partnering with a few other ministries and we have American Vision and American Family Association. We’re talking with two or three other major ministries and we’re taking that last two hours and we’re going to be featuring some of the nation’s foremost authorities on what pastors’ rights are in terms of their ability to speak out on political and cultural issues. Continue »
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