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TechnoratiCP: So what challenges do you see ahead as both the new president of Coral Ridge and as a regular evangelical in today’s culture?
Fisher: The biggest challenge for me is moving Coral Ridge through a thoroughly complex transition. We have been a ministry centered around the man of D. James Kennedy for 30 years, and we are moving to represent his mission. And his mission in the media was to expose the lies of the culture and present that apologetic truth. That is a wonderful exciting mission but it isn’t pulled off without a decent amount of risk and a lot of innovation and a lot of creativity. That would definitely be our biggest challenge. So far what I’ve seen from our team gives me great confidence that it’s going to be a fabulous journey and we’re going to have tremendous impact and influence. But it’s also fraught with challenges and risks.
As a young evangelical, we’re facing a culture that is becoming more and more hostile to what it needs most. It’s a very ironic situation. It’s not that people of my generation – and I’m 34 – are anti-Christian; they just don’t care. They don’t seem to realize the need to be saved [and] they don’t see the need to combat evil in the culture. Because we are so preoccupied with raising families and all the entertainment we have available to us and the luxuries that we have, we’ve forgotten what life is truly about. I think for my specific generation, 9/11 was a wake-up call. I think we have cultural issues, community issues that shock us. But at the same time, our challenge is to be salt and light, and for a generation that’s not used to being either, that’s going to be a challenge. Fully surmountable, but a challenge nonetheless.
CP: What do you want to accomplish during your leadership at Coral Ridge?
Fisher: I often said that if I can make any of our team members successful in their own right, that’s worth the entire job. If I can assist someone in TV production or someone who answers the e-mail we get do their job better, feel more fulfilled at work, realize that they’re having an impact, I think that’s it. This ministry really is much less about who leads it and much more about who works in it and the team that we have here is fully dedicated to the mission that has been set before us. I have said countless times, the progress CRM makes is not due to outside circumstances, it’s based on this team’s ability to function as a unit, to function as a body and to humbly put our hearts and our heads before the Lord and ask Him what He wants of us. Acts 2:42-47 is our key verse; we’ve studying it for over year. It’s the picture of the Christian church and its empathy after Christ’s resurrection and in that passage is contained all the elements that I think are necessary for any organization to be successful. Whenever the Lord calls me somewhere else in the future or calls me home, I would hope that our staff would say I was always willing and desiring to make individuals here successful.
CP: And that would in turn enhance the effectiveness of the ministry?
Fisher: Well, if all 115 people are working to their full potential and growing, this ministry will explode.
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