Lee Strobel

And I was an atheist.

I lived a very immoral, drunken, profane, narcissistic life.

self-destructive in many ways kind of life.

I was successful, went to Yale Law School, was legal editor of the Chicago Tribune, won major awards for investigative reporting.

So people would look at that and think, oh man, this guy's got it together.

They didn't see the other side.

I was literally drunk in the snow in an alley on Saturday night.

And my wife comes up to me one day and gives me the worst news any atheist husband could get.

She said, I've decided to become a Christian.

And honestly, first word through my mind, divorce.

I was going to, oh yeah, I was going to, I didn't want to be married to a Christian.

Were both of you guys married?

You were atheists, both of you.

No, she was agnostic.

Okay.

She didn't know what to believe.

She's kind of spiritual neutral.

She meets a neighbor who is a Christian nurse, shares Jesus with her, brings her to church, and she checks things out herself and comes and gives me the news that she's become a Christian.

And I thought, well, what's going to happen?

She's going to turn into some holier-than-thou person who's going to look down on me and my drinking, and she wouldn't like my friends anymore.