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The mission, as Isaiah 61:1–3 calls us, is to bring the good news of Jesus Christ. The image on the Shroud of Turin provides undeniable evidence of His life, crucifixion, and resurrection—bringing hope to the brokenhearted, freedom to captives, comfort to those in mourning, and inviting all to encounter the living Savior.
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We call him “Doubting Thomas” because Thomas needed to see the risen Jesus before he believed. But so did Paul. Think about that: the very man who later wrote, “For we walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7), had to see the risen Jesus first in order to believe. Paul had persecuted Christians and opposed the message of Jesus until he encountered the risen Christ. He later declared, “Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord?” (1 Corinthians 9:1), and that Christ “was seen by me also” (1 Corinthians 15:8). Paul went on to write nearly half the books of the New Testament. So when you hear, “We walk by faith, not by sight,” remember: the man who wrote those words had to see first. And after seeing the risen Jesus, both Thomas and Paul certainly did walk by faith and not by sight. God meets each heart where it is. Perhaps you need to see first too. The miraculous image on the Shroud of Turin invites you to look for yourself. Could you be looking upon the image of the risen Jesus—“the Christ, the Son of the living God” (Matthew 16:16)?
Judaism: Marty Barrack, raised in a conservative Jewish household in the Bronx, married a Catholic woman in 1967 but remained Jewish for 20 years. In 1979, after moving to Burke, Virginia, he experienced a profound sense of calling from Jesus while walking past a newly built church. Studying the Shroud of Turin convinced him of Christ’s Resurrection, and after a period of prayer and discernment, he was baptized into Christianity.
Atheist: British filmmaker David Rolfe, who began as a self-professed atheist investigating the Shroud for a documentary, became convinced of its authenticity and converted to Christianity, stating, "I started off as an atheist, and then became an agnostic. And I'm now a Christian, because I cannot possibly understand anything else that could have produced that image."
Agnostic: Dr. August Accetta, a physician who approached the Shroud as an agnostic after years of scientific study, concluded it is the burial cloth of Jesus, leading him to embrace Catholicism and found the Shroud Center of Southern California.
Skeptic: Dr. Jeremiah J. Johnston, a New Testament scholar and former Shroud skeptic, now affirms it as "real evidence to... the Resurrection of Jesus," citing pollen from Jerusalem and other forensic details that shifted his view.
Islam: Nabeel Qureshi was raised in a devout Ahmadi Muslim family before converting to Christianity after examining the evidence for Jesus. He went on to write the New York Times bestseller Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus, which sold more than 500,000 copies. In telling the story of his journey to Christ, Qureshi includes the Shroud of Turin and its extraordinary image among the evidence that challenged him to reconsider what he believed about the death and resurrection of Jesus.
Jesus said the Sign of Jonah pointed to His death, burial, and resurrection (Matthew 12:38–40).
“I became a Christian because the evidence was so compelling that Jesus really is the one-and-only Son of God who proved His divinity by rising from the dead.”— Lee Strobel, The Case for Christ (New York Times bestseller; more than 5 million copies sold)