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He was found by the Great Shepherd of the flock and brought into His fold in 1946 while serving in the United States navy. The Lord graciously gave him a good wife who has stood by his side for 51 years. During the ensuing years he received several "pieces of paper" commonly called degrees. Whether they are called degrees to emphasize the "degree" of our ignorance or the "first degree" of our search of true knowledge and wisdom remains for each to determine. In Dr. Shafer’s case the latter is most applicable as his Lord took him past so much confusion of the classroom to the well spring of older writers. There he drank deeply of the Lord’s own word and also to revel in the writings of those in past centuries. He traversed in the way until those biblical views became his, not just an intellectual pursuit, but truth that the heart could revel in and the life could be thus governed. He considers himself in the fold of the famous English Baptist evangelist, of the past century, Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Baptists in days gone by held to a creedal statement, the "grandaddy" of which is the London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689. These truths were forwarded in early America in the Hudson Valley Confession and the Philadelphia Confession. In 1969 a small group of likemined believers formed The Berean Society, a missionary, educational and church planting body to further proclaim the views above expressed. Dr. Shafer served as founder and General Director nearly 40 years. He has pastored and founded churches in Washington, Oregon and Northern California.
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