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Dallas Jenkins

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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
509. Retelling the Greatest Story Ever Told | Dallas Jenkins

You can look on YouTube right now and find plenty of videos talking about my heresy and that I'm leading people to hell because I'm not just, you know, whatever. Or you can find videos that are saying that I'm the greatest storyteller ever and that this show has changed their life. If I start to seek to pursue the latter and avoid the former, then I'm not making a good story.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
509. Retelling the Greatest Story Ever Told | Dallas Jenkins

You can look on YouTube right now and find plenty of videos talking about my heresy and that I'm leading people to hell because I'm not just, you know, whatever. Or you can find videos that are saying that I'm the greatest storyteller ever and that this show has changed their life. If I start to seek to pursue the latter and avoid the former, then I'm not making a good story.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
509. Retelling the Greatest Story Ever Told | Dallas Jenkins

So my comfort... With telling those stories in the way that I am could have only come from that moment at 4 o'clock in the morning where I gave up. So the feeding the 5,000 that I felt responsible for not only refers to financial success, it refers to spiritual success. achievement, right? Mission.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
509. Retelling the Greatest Story Ever Told | Dallas Jenkins

So my comfort... With telling those stories in the way that I am could have only come from that moment at 4 o'clock in the morning where I gave up. So the feeding the 5,000 that I felt responsible for not only refers to financial success, it refers to spiritual success. achievement, right? Mission.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
509. Retelling the Greatest Story Ever Told | Dallas Jenkins

So my comfort... With telling those stories in the way that I am could have only come from that moment at 4 o'clock in the morning where I gave up. So the feeding the 5,000 that I felt responsible for not only refers to financial success, it refers to spiritual success. achievement, right? Mission.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
509. Retelling the Greatest Story Ever Told | Dallas Jenkins

I can't feel like my mission is to convert more people or gather more fish or when I gather them, I'm responsible for putting the righteous in this boat and the evil into the... That's God's job, right? So I'm a gatherer, I'm a herald. So that's to your question. Yeah, okay, okay, okay. So my comfort with...

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
509. Retelling the Greatest Story Ever Told | Dallas Jenkins

I can't feel like my mission is to convert more people or gather more fish or when I gather them, I'm responsible for putting the righteous in this boat and the evil into the... That's God's job, right? So I'm a gatherer, I'm a herald. So that's to your question. Yeah, okay, okay, okay. So my comfort with...

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
509. Retelling the Greatest Story Ever Told | Dallas Jenkins

I can't feel like my mission is to convert more people or gather more fish or when I gather them, I'm responsible for putting the righteous in this boat and the evil into the... That's God's job, right? So I'm a gatherer, I'm a herald. So that's to your question. Yeah, okay, okay, okay. So my comfort with...

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
509. Retelling the Greatest Story Ever Told | Dallas Jenkins

telling those stories could have only happened after that moment that happened at four o'clock in the morning. And so what happened after we've had several short films and vignettes over the years that had that resulted in that aha moment, it was clear that we were onto something. It was clear that telling stories from a different lens allowed people to unpack it differently.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
509. Retelling the Greatest Story Ever Told | Dallas Jenkins

telling those stories could have only happened after that moment that happened at four o'clock in the morning. And so what happened after we've had several short films and vignettes over the years that had that resulted in that aha moment, it was clear that we were onto something. It was clear that telling stories from a different lens allowed people to unpack it differently.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
509. Retelling the Greatest Story Ever Told | Dallas Jenkins

telling those stories could have only happened after that moment that happened at four o'clock in the morning. And so what happened after we've had several short films and vignettes over the years that had that resulted in that aha moment, it was clear that we were onto something. It was clear that telling stories from a different lens allowed people to unpack it differently.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
509. Retelling the Greatest Story Ever Told | Dallas Jenkins

So for example, I filmed a vignette around the crucifixion where Peter is wrestling with, how is this possible that the Messiah could have died? If he's the Messiah, why would he die? I must have missed it, right? And so he's flashingβ€” Bad outcome. Right.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
509. Retelling the Greatest Story Ever Told | Dallas Jenkins

So for example, I filmed a vignette around the crucifixion where Peter is wrestling with, how is this possible that the Messiah could have died? If he's the Messiah, why would he die? I must have missed it, right? And so he's flashingβ€” Bad outcome. Right.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
509. Retelling the Greatest Story Ever Told | Dallas Jenkins

So for example, I filmed a vignette around the crucifixion where Peter is wrestling with, how is this possible that the Messiah could have died? If he's the Messiah, why would he die? I must have missed it, right? And so he's flashingβ€” Bad outcome. Right.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
509. Retelling the Greatest Story Ever Told | Dallas Jenkins

So he's flashing back to when Jesus called him Peter and called him the rock and said, you now have the keys to the kingdom of heaven, yada, yada. So he's flashing back to that moment. Well, I went to that moment, and I started it with two disciples arm wrestling. And they're just having fun around the fire. This goes back to my eight-year-old self.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
509. Retelling the Greatest Story Ever Told | Dallas Jenkins

So he's flashing back to when Jesus called him Peter and called him the rock and said, you now have the keys to the kingdom of heaven, yada, yada. So he's flashing back to that moment. Well, I went to that moment, and I started it with two disciples arm wrestling. And they're just having fun around the fire. This goes back to my eight-year-old self.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
509. Retelling the Greatest Story Ever Told | Dallas Jenkins

So he's flashing back to when Jesus called him Peter and called him the rock and said, you now have the keys to the kingdom of heaven, yada, yada. So he's flashing back to that moment. Well, I went to that moment, and I started it with two disciples arm wrestling. And they're just having fun around the fire. This goes back to my eight-year-old self.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
509. Retelling the Greatest Story Ever Told | Dallas Jenkins

What would it have been like to sit around the fire with Jesus and the 12 disciples? And they're just friends. What are they doing? And so they're arm wrestling. And I have one of the disciples have a surprise victory over the other. The other one had been undefeated. And Andrew defeats Thaddeus. And they go, oh my goodness, look what happened. He won.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
509. Retelling the Greatest Story Ever Told | Dallas Jenkins

What would it have been like to sit around the fire with Jesus and the 12 disciples? And they're just friends. What are they doing? And so they're arm wrestling. And I have one of the disciples have a surprise victory over the other. The other one had been undefeated. And Andrew defeats Thaddeus. And they go, oh my goodness, look what happened. He won.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
509. Retelling the Greatest Story Ever Told | Dallas Jenkins

What would it have been like to sit around the fire with Jesus and the 12 disciples? And they're just friends. What are they doing? And so they're arm wrestling. And I have one of the disciples have a surprise victory over the other. The other one had been undefeated. And Andrew defeats Thaddeus. And they go, oh my goodness, look what happened. He won.