As pastors and church leaders, we often stand in the tension between two realities. On one hand, we minister to people who say they believe in God but haven’t really thought through why they believe. On the other, we’re called to engage a culture — and sometimes even our own children — that increasingly finds the idea of God unbelievable.
This series we’ve just started, called Unbelievable, is deeply personal to me. Not because I’ve always believed in God — quite the opposite. My journey started with rejection and skepticism. I didn’t want there to be a God. I wanted to live life on my own terms. But when challenged to dig deeper, I discovered that the very foundations of our universe — from physics to biology to consciousness itself — offered compelling evidence for a Designer. The question wasn’t “Can you prove God?” but “What does the evidence best support?”
And that’s what I want to share with you, not only for your own reflection, but as a tool to help equip those you lead — especially the skeptics, the doubters, and the spiritually disengaged.
The Question Beneath the Questions
We all know people who ask hard questions about faith. “Why should I believe the Bible?” “What about science?” “Hasn’t evolution explained away the need for God?” But underneath these questions is often a deeper one: Is there meaning? Am I the result of purpose or of accident?
That’s where we need to start — not with defensiveness or surface-level answers, but with a reasoned exploration of the world we live in. And I believe the most powerful place to begin is the staggering precision of creation itself.
Fine-Tuning That Demands an Explanation
In the sermon, I shared a few staggering facts about the universe’s design. Take gravity — if the gravitational constant were off by just one part in 10^60, the universe wouldn’t support life. That’s a number so precise, it’s hard to even comprehend. The expansion rate of the universe? It had to be calibrated to one part in 10^120. One physicist said the odds of getting these right by chance are like winning the lottery every day for 13 billion years.
This isn’t fuzzy science — these are well-established physical constants that point to a deeper question: How did the universe know to be life-permitting before life ever existed?
This is where naturalism — the worldview that assumes the universe is a closed system governed only by time, space, and matter — starts to show its cracks.
Four “Miracles” That Naturalism Can’t Explain
There are four key moments that, for me, helped shift my thinking from naturalism to theism. These aren’t abstract ideas — they’re points of conversation that I believe every pastor, leader, and parent needs to know:
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The Universe Came Into Existence
Science confirms it: the universe had a beginning. But if time, space, and matter began, what caused them? What was the “uncaused cause”? Naturalism has no sufficient answer. Theism does: “In the beginning, God created…” -
The Universe Was Finely Tuned for Life
Over 100 constants — gravity, electromagnetism, the mass of subatomic particles — had to fall within incredibly narrow ranges. Random processes don’t yield such precision. Intelligence does. -
Life Emerged from Non-Living Matter
Even our brightest scientists, with unlimited intelligence and resources, cannot produce life from non-life. The simplest cell is more complex than anything we’ve ever built. It’s not just about matter — it’s about information. Who wrote the code? -
Consciousness Exists
Perhaps most troubling for naturalism is this: we know we exist. We experience beauty, morality, purpose. How does mind emerge from molecules? Computers may calculate, but they don’t weep at funerals or laugh at sunsets. Consciousness is not an evolutionary byproduct — it’s a fingerprint.
Faith That Engages Both Heart and Mind
I’m not interested in blind faith — and neither are the young adults and thoughtful skeptics sitting in your churches. The faith I’ve come to know is built on reason and evidence. Scripture never asks us to believe without evidence; it presents history, fulfilled prophecy, eyewitness testimony, and the undeniable witness of creation itself.
Romans 1 says that God’s attributes — His eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. The problem isn’t the lack of evidence — it’s the unwillingness to see it.
A Challenge to Leaders
Here’s what I want to say to those of you leading others: Don’t assume that the people in your pews — even your elders and small group leaders — are equipped to answer these questions. Many believe, but they haven’t thought. Others think, but they haven’t believed. And our younger generations? They’re being catechized daily by a secular culture that is more evangelistic about unbelief than we are about faith.
You don’t have to become a physicist. But you do need to wrestle with these truths — and help others do the same. Lead your people to understand that believing in God isn’t intellectually naïve; it’s the most reasonable conclusion when you actually look at the evidence.
God Is More Than Intelligent — He’s Personal
But here’s the part we must never forget. The goal isn’t to win arguments — it’s to introduce people to a Person. The God who created this universe in astonishing detail didn’t do it just to impress us. He did it to know us.
That’s what the Bible tells us — that the Creator of galaxies also created you and me for relationship. That Jesus, the Word through whom all things were made, entered His own creation to bring us home.
That’s the most unbelievable part of all — and yet, it’s the truth I stake my life on.
So let’s equip our churches — not just to believe blindly, but to see clearly. Let’s prepare them to stand in grace and truth, to engage culture without compromise, and to help a skeptical world discover that maybe, just maybe, what seems unbelievable is actually the most believable thing of all.
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