Dear family and friends,
Before he became a Christian, Lee Strobel described himself as a hardcore atheist. He said, “I lived an immoral, drunken, profane, narcissistic, self-destructive kind of life.” Even though he was an award-winning journalist for the Chicago Tribune, his life was a wreck.
His wife, Leslie, had a Christian friend in their condo building who led her to faith in Christ and she started going to church. Strobel considered Christians to have made up the idea of God to overcome their fear of death, but he figured he didn’t have anything to lose to go to church once with his wife. The pastor’s sermon he heard that day was, “Basic Christianity” and Strobel left with a lot to think about. One thought he said he had was this: “If this stuff is true, it has huge implications for my life.”
This led him on a fact-finding project that ultimately led him to faith and to proclaiming and defending the gospel. He is known especially for two books, “The Case for Christ” and “The Case for Faith,” both of which are worth reading if you have not yet done so.
