Lee Strobel

Until somebody came to him one day and said, Sir Lionel,

You're the greatest lawyer here in the world.

Have you ever taken your monumental legal skill and applied it to the historical record of the resurrection and come to an informed verdict on whether Jesus rose from the dead?

He said, no, I haven't, but I will.

So he spent years doing what I ended up doing, investigating the evidence.

And I'll recite to you one sentence he wrote that summarizes his conclusion.

He says, I say unequivocally,

that the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ is so overwhelming that it compels acceptance by proof, which leaves absolutely no room for doubt.

This from the greatest legal mind, I think, in practical sense.

By the way, I told that story in California.

I moved to California in the year 2000 to be a teaching pastor at a church.

And a woman came up to me afterwards.

She said, hey, I'm your new neighbor.

We haven't met yet, but you just bought a house down the block.

I said, oh, that's great.

Good to meet you.

She said, yeah, one other thing.

I said, what?

She said, I'm Sir Lionel's sister.

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