

They go to a church service together, and the pastor says that we must listen for God’s whisper. She later visits the nurse, and they talk about God. This event plants a seed in the wife’s mind. At home in bed, the daughter asks about Jesus, and we learn that the parents are atheists. Afterwards, the nurse tells the wife that Jesus told her to be there that night.

His family life is blissful, but then at a restaurant, his little daughter chokes on a gumball. We learn the kind of guy he is when he says, “The only way to truth is through facts.”

The movie opens at the Chicago Tribune with Strobel getting an award for investigative journalism into questions about the safety of the Ford Pinto. It would’ve been a lot more engaging if they’d handed out Bingo cards of ridiculous Christian arguments. For everyone else, it’s an unsurprising journey from lack of God belief to Christian faith with a greatest hits collection of weak apologetics. If you’re a Christian who wants a pat on the head, and you don’t need to think too hard about the arguments given, that might work. In the end, it’s our hope that everyone who sees it will take their own faith journey.” It also became a movie (2017), about which Lee Strobel said, “It’s been an incredible journey, not only to go from atheism to faith, but to see the raw reality of our lives played out on film. The story of award-winning, legally trained journalist Lee Strobel as told in the book The Case for Christ has become a series of books, which have together sold millions of copies.
