Lee Strobel
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Excellent.
How much time did you spend with him?
Oh, a lot of time.
I was on the management team of the church ultimately.
And he led that management team as a senior pastor.
And so I was quite involved with him.
He was instrumental in me coming to faith because my wife started taking me to that church even when I was an atheist.
When I walked into that church on January the 20th of 1980 as an atheist,
And I heard the message of Jesus for the first time that I understood it from Bill Hybels.
And that's what started me on my journey to see if I could disprove it.
And so I owe a lot to Bill.
Well, you know, you mentioned
some leadership things.
He has a leadership gift.
He was a visionary leader, but a practical leader as well.
He was able to take what started out as a bunch of teenagers, a student ministry at a little church in Park Ridge, Illinois, and ultimately build it into the second largest church in America.
It was a church in South Bend, in Hammond, Indiana.
Interesting.
Yeah, Second Baptist Church, I think, in Hammond, Indiana.
Bill stayed.