How Atheist J. Warner Wallace Became Christian J. Warner Wallace

J. Warner Wallace of Cold-Case Christianity was not born into a family of Christians. He didn’t go to a Christian school, either as a child, a teen or as a young adult. When he joined the Los Angeles Police Department, Jesus was nowhere on his life’s radar screen. Wallace was, quite simply, a professing atheist.

But then one Sunday, apparently to please his wife, who did believe in God, Wallace attended a church service during which the pastor described Jesus as “the smartest man who ever lived.”

Smartest Man Who Ever Lived?

That intrigued Wallace because wisdom was something for which he had immense respect. So for the first time in his life, he picked up a Bible and began reading the New Testament. That’s when suddenly, a bolt of lightning leaped off the pages and Wallace became a believer, right!?!

Uh, no, that’s not how it happened. In fact, as Wallace describes it in the following video taken from his recent interview with Hillcrest Church’s Pastor Tom Goodman, it was a process, a process of learning the truth about Jesus and the truth about himself: