Contact: Confidence in What We Hope For (Hebrews 11:1)

In Contact, Dr. Ellie Arroway dedicates her life to SETI—searching for extraterrestrial intelligence with no evidence it exists. Her colleagues mock her faith in what cannot be seen. Yet she keeps listening. When contact finally comes, she travels to meet the alien with no guaranteed return. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Ellie had scientific faith—confidence in unseen reality. Christian faith works similarly: we have not seen God, yet we love him; we do not see him now, yet we believe. Both Ellie and Christians stake everything on the unseen.