One of Christianity's most interesting writers has a new book.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

This is Breakpoint.

Last week, popular author, apologist, and Colson Center senior fellow Jay Warner Wallace released his latest book.

It's called Person of Interest, Why Jesus

Still Matters in a World that rejects the Bible. Wallace's background and experience as a police

detective, specializing in what are called cold cases, has always added a fascinating dynamic

to Jim's investigations of Christianity. His skills in solving these cases, sometimes

years after initial investigations have been closed, have not only led him to national recognition

in the field of forensics, but also to a personal faith. In an earlier book, Cold Case Christianity,

Wallace examined the testimony of the gospel writers to see if they provided a

reliable witness to Jesus. In his next book, Forensic Faith, he taught investigative techniques

to readers so that they too could examine their faith as well as share it with others. Now,

in person of interest, Wallace tackles an even harder question. What if all that compelling evidence from the

gospel accounts wasn't even available? He's writing here to a culture that has largely rejected

the Bible as a valid source of information. If we did that, he's asking, would there still be

enough reason to consider Jesus a person worth paying attention to? Would there

still be reason to believe that he was the incarnate son of God? In person of interest,

Jim is employing a methodology similar to what police use in so-called no-body missing cases.

Nobody missing cases are disappearances where there is little to no physical evidence to be found at the crime scene.

Over the course of his career, Wallace has worked many such cases, and he's noticed a pattern.

Even in these nobody missing cases, there's often still a trail of compelling evidence to follow.

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