Lee Strobel Interview Transcript
The following transcript is from an Apologetics 315 interview with Lee Strobel. Original audio here. If you enjoy transcripts, please consider supporting, which makes this possible.
So the problem is that there are many many scholars out there who cannot communicate to average people. I mean, that’s just the reality of it. We do have many who can — I mean, we have great scholars like J.P. Moreland or Craig Hazen or Mike Licona, Bill Craig, Gary Habermas — I mean, there’s a lot of these guys who are respected for their scholarship but can also get up before a group of average people and communicate what they believe. Which is great, God bless them, I love that. But there are others who are equally brilliant and they live in this academic world and that’s where they’re suited. And they’re really good at writing articles for scholarly journals, and writing these books that are so heavy that the average person just can’t get it. And what I’ve seen my role in the Kingdom as being is someone who, having the background of journalist, and with law training, to be able to sit down with these people and ask them questions, having read their work as best I can and try to approach it as one of the questions I as a fairly typical person would have. And then try to force them to (the old saying) “put the cookies on the bottom shelf”, you know, make the material accessible to average people. And then I try to present it in a unique way, you know, organize it in a unique way that reflects who God made me to be, and communicate to a larger audience.