伊利亚·斯蒂芬斯，03年

在圣约会中，我开始去查塔努加的一个教堂。 After I moved to California, my former senior pastor, Bucky Buckles, left the faith. He said there was no God and no evidence of modern miracles. While I had enough of an understanding of apologetics to know he was wrong about the nature of God, I wondered if he was right about modern miracles.

2015年，我开始制作一部名为《发送证据》的纪录片。 The purpose of the film is to ask the hard philosophical, theological, and scientific questions about healing miracle claims. It also asks people who claim to have had miraculous healing to send in their medical records for research purposes. To fund the film, we raised $133,000 on Kickstarter, which was in the top 1% of funds raised on the platform at the time.

Providentially, I have been blessed to work with the Global Medical Research Institute, a group of medical professionals who study the results of prayer in Jesus’ name. They collect the records for each case, verify the claimant was sick and then healed, research the peer-reviewed literature to look for naturalistic explanations, then publish a case study. All but one of the cases in the film have been published in peer-reviewed medical journals.

My time at Covenant deeply shaped Send Proof, so much so that, in the film, I talk about how the college taught me to value critical thinking. Covenant also shaped my approach to constructing the film, in that I show all sides of the argument. I allowed skeptics such as Dr. Michael Shermer, John Loftus, Dr. Michael Ruse, and James Randi to present their side. I interviewed prayer ministry leaders including Bill Johnson, Dr. Randy Clark, and Dr. Heidi Baker. I also interviewed the apologists Dr. William Lane Craig, Dr. J.P. Moreland, Dr. Craig Keener, and Dr. Gary Habermas. In the end, we show both the charlatanism that has marked many so-called “miracle ministries” as well as highlight legitimate miracles God has done.

这部电影赢得了全世界信徒和怀疑论者的心。 Multiple atheists have told me that the film brought them to tears and made them reconsider a relationship with Jesus. 我们在世界各地的电影节上获奖，从罗马到伊斯坦布尔再到东京。 Find out more at SendProof.com.