Posted on 10/23/2025 10:25:51 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Few would dispute Jenkins’ role in reshaping the faith-based film landscape. Since “The Chosen,”... premiered in 2017, the series has drawn billions of views, been translated into over 100 languages and inspired a wave of new Christian productions like “House of David” and the forthcoming Fox show “The Faithful.”
Despite its global success, Jenkins said the journey has been anything but easy. He shared how, from the moment that "The Chosen" launched eight years ago, “everything in my family, whether it’s medical crises that we’re facing today … started, more in the last several years than the previous 20 years combined.”
“You’d think that as the show has grown in popularity, things would’ve gotten easier. They haven’t, they’ve gotten more difficult,” he reflected. “Sometimes I say to God, ‘OK, I’m doing work for you. Can we just ease up a little bit?’”
His wife, Amanda, calls their experience “the manna program.” Jenkins explained: “Every day when the Israelites came out for their daily manna, God said to them, 'Don’t store any up. I don’t want you to be comfortable.' I think we’re supposed to be desperate for Him.”
Though he doesn’t “love it all the time,” Jenkins said he believes the hardship has a purpose. “God is allowing it for a reason,” he said. “It produces better fruit. And I think maybe some of the results of ‘The Chosen’ are because of some of this challenge and opposition that we’ve faced.”
...“What I’ve heard from a lot of people is that in the last few weeks, since the assassination and all the conversations that are happening, people have said, ‘The Chosen,’ in some ways, was tilling the soil for several years,” “It made people a little bit more open to the Bible, a little bit more open to these conversations.”
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When you confuse people about the Bible woes to you.
Thank you for posting the link! Must have pasted wrong.
I like his work but find him annoying.
Just like most artsy types.
We were kicking around in Colorado on vacation and bumped into Erick Avari, the Chosen actor who plays Nicodemus. He’s actually our favorite character on the series.
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