By David Geisler
We’re happy to share with you that we have found an editor from the Billy Graham ministry for the movie! As you know, our plans to premiere this documentary about my father’s life in Summer 2020 were delayed due to Covid-19. We have rescheduled the new global premiere date for June 13th, 2021. And actually… I’m glad for the wait!
God has used this time to help our ministry prepare for the coming of this movie so that it can truly be a catalyst for our ministry’s many branches. It has also given me time to study my father’s works in a much deeper way, and to realize some of his genius that was not clearly laid out before.
As you know, when we started this movie 2 1/2 years ago we wanted to honor my father.
But as we began to interview all these Christian leaders, it became more clear that God wanted us to do more than just honor my father… I began to see more clearly how my dad was one of the few people in his day that help point the evangelical church in the right direction.
In the last six months my perspective has changed again. Now I believe that I only got the movie half right… My dad wasn’t one among a few in his day, he was singularly the one we needed to listen to, and the one we still need to listen to today if the evangelical church is going to stay on the right path in the 21st century.
I am seeing how to encourage Christians in a comprehensive approach to this, and will be speaking about this 3-Dimensional approach to the practical application of apologetics at the NCCA Conference. I am also understanding in a much deeper way how important it is that we all pass on the foundation my father built into the hands of the next generations!
With our current team for the documentary, we are confident God will help us craft this movie and its accompanying workbook in a way that will equip millions around the globe!
This movie is going to give viewers a taste of such key concepts as:
- classical (2-step) apologetics,
- the need for the tools of apologetics within evangelism,
- the power of discipleship as a supercharger for lasting impact.
We will “follow Norm’s journey” from the lack of apologetics in a church that embraced blind faith, to my father’s trailblazing days advancing the truth of the gospel among top academic experts and in the courts. Then we will see how his personal relationship with God has had an exponential impact in the lives of many, even though he seemed at the beginning of his life to be, like many of us often feel, “not qualified!”
The movie is also going to establish that not only was my dad the influencer behind the influencers (our top Christian leaders), but that he has built a foundation of trustworthy information. From the ability to identify truth, to determining the undeniable truth of the Christian Faith, the tools he has left us span so many foundational areas that connect faith and reason within apologetics, philosophy, and theology.
We are in the process of confirming dates to show the movie in several more megachurches, who will be inviting Christians in the area to attend. Our goal is to have a “premiere” of the movie in each of the United States, and to take it internationally to as many countries as God opens the doors for us to go!
Through our Legacy Initiative we are working to prepare my father’s “goldmine of resources” to go with us around the globe by translating key books into more languages. We are also developing conference options so that wherever we show the movie we can also give an introductory training. We will then point people back to the Norm Geisler Institute for deeper discipleship and an affordable, flexible, seminary-level equipping in all of my father’s tools.
My father Dr. Norman Geisler has truly been THE voice of the last half century, and it’s up to each one of us to give what he gave us to the next generations. #Itstime to listen to him fully!
