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Dec 2020
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Agnostic Pastor Drives Christian Pop Sin...

BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION
About this episode

Alisa Childers was a member of the Christian pop group ZOEgirl. When the group broke up and Alisa joined a Nashville church, she discovered her pastor was a self-described “hopeful agnostic.” 

Under his Bible study teaching, Alisa’s faith was “getting wrecked.” Determined to find the truth about Jesus, Alisa was shocked at the amount of evidence she found.

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This episode features an excerpt from Billy Graham’s message “What is Truth?” Listen to the full message: https://billygraham.org/audio/truth/ 

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Discover more about apologetics, how to spot progressive Christianity and Alisa Childres’ podcast and blog here: https://www.alisachilders.com/ 

Music used in this episode:

Alisa Childers – “Take It From Me” @ 0:26
Alisa Childers – “The Truth Is” @ 15:31
Alisa Childers – “Wake Me Up” @ 20:36

GPS is an outreach of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 

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