By Lisa Bixel, Adult Department Assistant at Bremen Public Library
For all of the skeptics out there, this movie may have you reassessing your beliefs and how you choose to live in this crazy, complicated, yet completely wonderful world. In the words of Lee Strobel, “The only way to truth is through facts.”
The Case For Christ is a factual account of Strobel’s life as an atheist and how he came to the realization that Christ does exist. He and his wife share a skeptical life. “We are atheists,” he tells his young daughter, Alison. “We believe in what’s real and what we can see and touch.”
His personal revelation is a powerful one that begins with an incident at a restaurant where he sees before his very eyes the kindness of a stranger, a nurse, saving his daughter and all the while telling him that she believes that it was not by accident that she was in the restaurant that night. She believed it was all part of God’s perfect plan.
Strobel’s wife, Leslie, is intrigued by the words of the nurse and after tracking her down starts going to church with her and develops a meaningful relationship with Jesus. Strobel wants nothing to do with his wife’s new found faith and takes out his frustration abusing alcohol and becoming very angry. He begins a quest to disprove that Jesus Christ ever existed and that His resurrection never happened. The outcome of Strobel’s research helps him reach a conclusion that he had never expected.
Strobel paints a very persuasive argument. But what about others who, like Lee, are skeptical. Can The Case For Christ influence them?
This true account of Strobel’s conversion is followed by the book that bears the same name as the movie, The Case For Christ. After his journalism career, he went on to become a pastor at the Willow Creek Church where he continues to share his faith and his story.
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