Lee Strobel

He encounters Jesus risen.

He becomes the apostle Paul.

He becomes friends with Peter, James, and John and some of the other disciples.

And Paul says in 1 Corinthians, he says, whether it's I or they, this is what we preach.

In other words, we're all saying we encountered the resurrected Jesus.

Then third, we have Peter in the book of Acts.

who gets up and says, this Jesus, God raised from the dead, to which we're all witnesses.

And 3,000 people said, we know you're telling the truth.

What do we do?

They repent, and the church is born.

And then we have the four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, who I believe have historical credentials that give them incredible credibility.

They are ancient biographies.

But then we have two sources outside the Bible.

This is fascinating.

We have people who sat under the teachings of the eyewitnesses themselves.

So, for instance, we have Clement.

Clement was ordained by Peter himself, Peter the eyewitness.

And he wrote a letter to the church in Corinth right there in the first century.

And he said, why, I'm paraphrasing, but he said, basically, why do the apostles have such courage and such conviction that Jesus...

because of the resurrection, because it happened, because they knew it happened.