Jonathan Roumie
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
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irrevocably i mean forever so if we can create an entertaining story that is based on the truth of the gospels and who jesus and the disciples were maybe it'll introduce people to to christ and in a way that the audience is introduced to him and maybe they'll want to follow him too how did it change your life the gospel I think the more I read the gospels, the more I discover the Bible is alive.
It's the living word, right? They say the Bible is alive. And so At any given time, you can read a passage from scriptures, from the gospels, even from the Old Testament, the letters of Paul, the Acts, that somehow will apply to your own life. Especially when you're struggling with something. You know, if I'm struggling with something, I just, I just can't figure it out.
I just don't, I have no ideas about where to go to resolve it. Inevitably there's the answers somewhere in the book and it's, it's a matter of sitting down with it and reading it. And I mean, it's remarkable the amount of times like I've had something in front of me that I just didn't know how to deal with it. And then I would flip to a random page. And it's like, the answer is right there.
It's right there. So I stopped being surprised about it. I just like, of course, this is... Yeah, and I take notes.
And I've met those people where... And we kind of talked a little bit about this at one point. Where... the craziest things are happening that they kind of already had a, an intuition was going to happen. Like, I don't even know what's a good example. There've been so many times where it's like somebody, uh, wanted to, wanted to, to, to, uh, trying to get rid of their house or something like that.
Try to sell their house and, and, uh, like, You know, they had like a certain amount of, it's just an example. Like they had like a week to get out of their house for somebody to buy their house. And, you know, somebody just comes knocking on the door and says, hey, you got a beautiful house. You're not selling this by chance, are you? And they're like, well, as a matter of fact, I am.
And it just so happens that they're like, Lord, just let us find somebody that wants this house. Like we didn't even put it on the market yet. And then somebody knocks on their door like an hour later or, you know, like, I mean, crazy, crazy stories. And they're like, yeah, I just, God just did it. I'm like, how? You don't seem phased. And that to me even, it's just. I totally agree.
Yeah. Because he kind of, Jesus kind of set it up that way.
He kind of told us 2,000 years ago, you know, you'll be hated because of me, persecuted because of me. Like, he lays it all out 2,000 years ago. But just know... That's okay. I overcame the world. You're good. Just remember that you're good when things hit the fan. Just remember that. Well, I still find it infuriating.
awful lot of arab christians get killed in a bunch of different countries all the time yeah and no one says a word about it no notice this i do yeah i do a lot uh christian persecution is something really close to my heart in fact i just executive produced an animated short film called the 21 which uh came out uh towards the end of february
on the 10th anniversary of the martyrdom of the 21 martyrs in Libya, and who were all, well, 20 of them were Coptic Christians from Egypt. One of them was non-Christian, initially, from Ghana. And they just rounded up all these guys. ISIS came and rounded them up, and... tried to force them to deny their faith. They're just migrant workers.
Like, just like, we're just trying to, they went off to work for a few weeks to try to make some money. And they got rounded up, just captured. And ISIS was like, yeah, deny your faith and we'll let you go. Don't deny it, we'll kill you. Like, oh, well, we're not going to do that. And they tortured them for months. And even the guy from Ghana Isis said to him, like, you can go.
You're not, you're okay. You're not Christian. You're not one of these guys. And he's like, no, no, no. Their God is my God. And so they say he converted and he died with them. And so six years ago, this producer friend of mine named Mark Rogers, he was in Egypt and he saw, he knew about the story and he saw the image of one of these martyrs who had, um,
who had like a lazy eye, and it reminded him of the image, which actually is on this little medallion, of Christ the Pantocrator. Basically, it's that figure of Christ that it's got both sides of his face. One side of him represents the divinity of Christ. One side represents the humanity of Christ.
And one of the sides, his eye on one side is kind of drooped, and it reminded him of this image of Christ. And he got this idea to create this animated short film about the martyrs and their story. And it turned out to be stunning. 21film.com, people want to see it. It's an extraordinary short film. Beautiful, beautiful. That implements Coptic iconography into the animation.
It was actually on the Oscar shortlist. It didn't get nominated, but it found its way onto this shortlist of 15 selections. And then they whittle it down to the top five. It had no marketing, had no advertisement, nothing. But somehow I think enough people saw this like, no, this is amazing. And it tells their story.
and the mystical nature of their experience and of actually their captors, what they experienced with these, you know, while they had these guys in captivity and like the divinely mystical experiences that they had. Are captures? Yeah, yeah, are represented in the short film. In fact, if you haven't seen it, I'll send you a link, but it's gorgeous.
And at the end of the day, what people walk away with is that these guys had the opportunity to say... No, no, I'm not Christian. And then live. But none of them did it. They went to their graves, literally.
Migrant workers. Not evangelists, just people? Christian migrant workers, poor migrant workers, I think construction or farming or something. And they wouldn't deny their faith. And so I got a chance to screen this film for the first time with the families of the martyrs 10 years later. Oh my gosh. Which was amazing.
Words fail me because it was such an overwhelmingly powerful experience to be there with them and kind of have them sort of reliving this experience. But when you talk to them, full of joy, full of joy. And they, more than one of them, thanked God.
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