Lee Strobel

your life begins to change.

And if there's no evidence of that, if your life doesn't begin to change, you have to question whether your initial prayer was really heartfelt.

You know what?

I want to say to them, yes.

That's exactly right.

My father-in-law was an atheist.

And after I became a Christian, he said, don't ever bring up the name Jesus to me.

Okay, he was a nice guy, but he was a strong atheist.

And I finally led him in a prayer to receive Jesus in the final conversation before he died.

And I believe he'll be in heaven and we'll spend eternity together.

And I think that is the power and the beauty of the Christian message.

I wrote a book called The Case for Grace.

And every chapter is a story about someone who is the most unlikely candidate for conversion.

And yet God intersected with their life.

They gave their life to Christ.

They received this free gift of forgiveness and eternal life.

They followed Jesus as their leader.

And they've been radically, radically revolutionized, including the guy who ran the torture center for the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

who's now in life in prison and telling everybody he meets about Jesus because God's changed his life.

That is the radical truth of Christianity.