Jonathan Roumie
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264 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
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Yeah, no, I'm not. And it's really true, David. Like, whatever happens, man, whatever's meant for me will be mine. Do you know what I mean? If I did nothing else for the rest of my life as an actor on camera, but Jesus and the Chosen, and that's all people remembered me for. Well, the fact that they remember me at all, that's amazing.
Like, I'm good because the show is just a vehicle for this point of human contact and this encounter that we're all meant to have with each other and with the divine beyond us.
To get to the point now where globally it's one of the most watched TV shows in the entire world, and 30% of that audience is non-religious, I think that's pretty significant. And so I don't really know why Hollywood would be afraid of that.
Of course, it's my pleasure.
Yeah, it's... It's been almost 100% secularized in terms of media and culture. I think it's hard to sort of see it being hijacked, but it's been like that for... I remember as a kid seeing these signs around churches around Christmas time. It says, keep Christ in Christmas. And especially now, any movie that comes out during the season that's about Christmas.
There's no trace of Jesus in it at all. So it's unfortunate, but that's why guys like Dallas Jenkins are around to kind of give people the alternatives like, oh yeah, this is what this is about. And then however I can,
contribute in my own way like to remember that yes christmas is supposed to be joyful but at the end of the day you know the birth of christ is meant to ultimately lead us to the cross of christ to bring the world hope and salvation and and everything that comes with with that
I don't know why, because I think when you look at the numbers with how The Chosen has performed and how other projects like Jesus Revolution have done with audiences, there's an audience that's there. But I think maybe because for so long there has been
a rash of media and content and films made under the guise of being related to faith that have just missed the mark in terms of excellence, or they read as so heavy-handed in their attempts to proselytize that essentially they're made for the choir. With The Chosen, it's like, well, we really see ourselves as a historical drama. And so 30% of our audience now is non-religious.
Like, that's a lot. And for a show that the early adopters were Christians, to get to the point now where globally it's one of the most watched TV shows in the entire world, and 30% of that audience is non-religious, I think that's pretty significant. And so I don't really know why Hollywood would be afraid of that.
I think that's a great question. I think the simplest way to describe it is knowing or arriving at the position of where I recognize that my ability to control my destiny, my fate, my path, whatever you want to call it, ultimately I believe is beyond me. Yet I have to participate in the process of moving forward, of achievement, of trying to follow the direction that I believe I'm meant to go.
When I came to the conclusion in that moment that we talked about, that moment of surrender, I came to the conclusion that for the previous eight years up to that point, I think that God had an idea or a plan for me, and then it's like He said, okay, this is, I've given you these gifts, I've given you these talents, do something with them.
And I'm kind of like, oh, okay, let me go do something with them. And sort of leaving him out of the discernment process when it came to certain steps to take to move forward. And so I did that for years and years and years, and I think as a person of faith, you necessarily cannot keep God separate from any part of your life, especially in areas where you're struggling.
And for me, it was in a moment of severe stress and anxiety and borderline fiscal destitution that I basically said, I can't do it on my own. I recognize I've been trying to do everything that I thought I was supposed to do. but it hasn't worked.
And what I realized is that I've never checked in and thought whether or not this particular action was the right move or that was what God might want from my life. So now it was essentially a prayer where I say, I want whatever you want from me because you know better than I do what's good for me. Whatever that is, show me what it is.
Constantly. God willing, I'm on the path. But that's part of the mystery of faith. God ultimately is unknowable.
Where are you being tested? You know, they asked St. Paul about that and he never really quite answered directly. He had a prayer. He's like, Lord, take this thorn from my side. Three times he said, I asked the Lord to take this thorn from my side. And that God said, no, I'm not going to take that from you because my grace is sufficient. In other words, he needed Paul personally
to have this thing, this weakness, whatever it was, so that Paul would always depend on God for everything that he got. And I feel similarly with my own sort of things. I'm not comparing myself to Paul in any aspect whatsoever, but we all deal with something, right? We're all suffering and struggling with something.
I'm a woefully flawed human being, but I'm trying to do the best that I can with the gifts that I've been given. And by me even just walking my, you know, the walk of faith publicly, it's not something that I ever intended to do. It's something that, you know, during the pandemic, I literally felt pushed to do. And I started doing it. I started praying live on my social media accounts.
And I thought, what am I doing? This is career killer. Because it was like... It would, first of all, out me, you know, as a Christian. And then, in many cases, even more stringently, out me as a Catholic Christian, which people find even harder to take. You know, there's like a billion Catholics in the world. There are. But, you know, I don't know that they're all here in America.
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