Whenever I encounter an unbeliever or even my own doubt, I always say: either we're all insane or this is real.

The "this" to which I am referring to is Jesus Christ and Christianity. To keep the long story short, I have been a Christian since I was eight years old; nearly 15 years. For so long my faith was just a way of keeping my parents happy. I always wanted to please them and make sure they knew I was a good child. But here is my reality laid out before you. There was never any reason for me to prove my goodness. God made me good. It's hard to explain, and if you're a Christian you probably can relate, but from the moment I accepted Christ (or even considered who He is), I realized I was not in control of my identity. It wasn't by my own doing that I was good, or kind to my parents or anyone for that matter. It was and still is, because of the work God does in my life.

So, here I present to you the movie "The Case for Christ" based on the true story of Lee Strobel. Strobel worked as a legal editor for The Chicago Tribune in the 1980s. It wasn't until his wife, Leslie, accepted Jesus Christ that Strobel denied the existence of God. What transpired throughout the movie, and his life was a year-long investigation of God and Jesus. He literally put God on trial.

The film is based on Strobel's actual journey that he details in his 1998 book of the same name. One of the most powerful quotes from Strobel's book details his own barrier in believing in God:

“To be honest, I didn't want to believe that Christianity could radically transform someone's character and values. It was much easier to raise doubts and manufacture outrageous objections than to consider the possibility that God actually could trigger a revolutionary turn-around in such a depraved and degenerate life.”

It is a powerful revelation to come to terms with one's own motives. As an investigative journalist, Strobel was always pursuing facts. It is a consistent theme throughout the movie, but one that meets him head on when a story he had been working on, and was published, provided him with evidence that discredited his information. When Strobel visits the man who he wrongly convicted of guilt in a hospital the man tells him that it wasn't that he missed the truth, it was simply because he didn't want to see the truth.

What follows is a pivotal moment in the film where Strobel is staring at all of the evidence before him in a makeshift closet in the basement of the Tribune building. His eyes tear up, and so did mine to be honest, and he utters in dramatic fashion "All right God, you win." This leads Strobel to tell his wife what he's been doing and how she had lead him down this path to faith.

As a Christian, one who has been living this whole thing out for fifteen years, it was refreshing. So much of who I am has changed since I accepted Christ in the early morning at a Christian camp. I have learned about the ways of the world, about how others operate, and how Christianity is supposed to fit into all of that.

Here's the thing, it doesn't fit. Everything Lee Strobel discovered, and a host of others, is that God is an anomaly. What one encounters through Christianity stands in stark contrast to literally everything around it. Which is why there are so many films and books and TV shows that devote money, time, and resources on the story of Jesus Christ and Christianity.

While "The Case for Christ" is easy to place into the category of 'faith films' it is easily a standout. Many faith films have been given a reputation of terrible acting and cheesy plot points- which I would tend to agree with. However, this film does not follow this stereotype and instead comes across as a standout motion picture. The acting is phenomenal and the plot is relevant.

One quite that is shared at the end of the movie, and one that I hold important, comes from C.S. Lewis who said, "Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important." This quote, which comes from an individual who was at first an atheist, always comes to me in moments of doubt. If this whole thing is false than it isn't important, but how can I ignore the millions of believers all over the world then?

I could go on, but I will just encourage you to check it out for yourself. Let the evidence speak for itself if you will.