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You’ll Love How This Skeptic Gets Silenced
Well, at least I did! Some people just need this kind of...
Steven Pawley
July 31, 2025
There’s something satisfying when the strongest skeptic of who and what you follow is rendered speechless. I just don’t like when that skeptic is someone with whom I agree!
Have you been there? We can offer no more arguments or answers and just go silent.
Before we can raise a hand in praise, we’ll likely have to bow our head in shame. Yet it’s those moments of truth so powerful that they leave us speechless and affect us the most.
A journalist for the Chicago Tribune, Yale Law student, atheist, and skeptic wrote a book about just such a moment in his life.
Using his skills in investigative journalism and legal depositions, he sought to vanquish the Christian faith by disproving its central claim - the resurrected Christ.
What happened? The power and wisdom of the cross made him a follower of Christ! His mouth was stopped, and he became guilty before God.
He went from scoffing at the foolishness of preaching to a new paradigm of life through faith in the resurrected Christ.
In his book, A Case for Christ, he details his journey to faith in Christ. What convinced him? God’s word gives the answer:
Lee, like so many before him met the power of the cross (1 Cor. 1:18-21), and the wisdom of God in the Cross-examination (1 Cor. 1:22-25).
Strobel when from an atheist to awe. Calvary cross-examined silenced the skeptic. He concluded it took far more faith to remain an atheist than to put his trust in Christ.
Here’s the thing. Christians argue – a lot! That’s the context of Paul’s words (1 Cor. 1:11-13). I’m of Paul, Apollos, Cephas… What’s your tribe or brand, pet doctrine or practice?
The believers at Corinth were in a messy church because it was a healthy church! People were being pulled out of deep sin, coming to Christ… Glory!
They also brought some baggage from the “old life”. They needed to learn God’s word and ways, grow in grace and knowledge, and see the Jesus in all His goodness and glory.
Instead, they were introduced to factions and friction. Some were no doubt right and others wrong. But the controversies were drawing attention away from Christ.
Paul wisely brings them back to Calvary and invites investigation but also interrogation. Let it cross-examine your motives, your arguments, skepticism and tribalism.
Maybe revisiting Calvary and seeing Jesus hanging, bleeding, dying… and rising for us can stop our mouth, bring us guilty before God and turn our arguments into awe.
Over the years we’ve all seen, heard and participated in our fair share of arguments about the things of God. Right or wrong, now might be a good time to go speechless.
But don’t stop there. After you bow the head in shame, you’ll soon raise a hand in praise.
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