The Impossible Task of Playing Jesus | Guest: Jonathan Roumie | Ep 46

[Music] welcome in to rick and bubba university the podcast to hear from a low lit rick and above a broadcast plaza in teleport you know it's a podcast bubba so it's low-light that's right we have our own lighting yeah if you're watching us on the youtube channel or on pluto we welcome if you're just listening to the audio know that bubba and i what they've done is they've taken us since we can be a little wild and they've tried to use this setting to calm us into more conversational you know experience with our guests and and you can enjoy that in the audience we are excited because we had jonathan roomie on the rick and bubba show but the reagan bubba show you know you got 10 minute segments and then and you got to get to this this is we said we got to have a podcast with jonathan rooney if you don't know who we're speaking of then you probably are not familiar with the chosen uh jonathan rumi plays the role of jesus christ the chosen bubba is the number one crowd-funded media project in history do you realize they have gone out and the crowd who loves what they do 20 million dollars to date that has been raised and also don't forget the chosen was also the first thought to have their own app and you can watch it globally all over the world and this has been these guys are innovators they're pioneers and jonathan roomie joins us again on rick and bubba university jonathan how are you thank you rick thank you bob uh i'm doing fantastic i'm so delighted to be back here yeah i uh i agree we did not get enough time first time around so hopefully we'll we'll make up for it today yeah so we talked last time about the role of playing jesus christ and we got the history on that we may some people are listening to this or watching this that may not have that information so we can go back to that but i know a lot of fans of the chosen including all of us here on the show can we jump right into kind of an update i mean like we know season one was incredibly successful continues to be successful uh 50 million views is isn't that where we were from around 50 i think we're up to 53 now 53 million views yeah uh it's now available in english spanish portuguese russian chinese arabic and hindi uh and subtitled in over 20 different languages as well so we've got dubs we've got we've got you can watch it anywhere in the world it's been used as an incredible evangelical tool to introduce the world to maybe things they didn't know about the bible in in in jesus and and the gospel and these disciples that that he chose uh and of course you can get it on roku apple tv fire tv chromecast and of course the chosen mobile app and it it's funded by people who love what you guys do anybody can watch it it's free to watch and the funding comes from people that say i'd like to pay it forward which means i'm donating money to the project so others can watch it for free this was innovative but it it's worked it's worked so much that we we're going we're going season two that's it i think we're uh we're we're almost um funded for seven episodes of season two i think we we funded six of them already and now we're i believe into episode seven if i'm not mistaken um uh yeah all through the paid forward program which has been um incredible like you know the first the season one was funded through essentially um selling shares uh for the show so anybody that invested in the show has a piece of the show for the life of the show season two uh was basically done saying you know we're gonna we're gonna release the show for free and if you got some value out of what you saw if you like what you saw for i think it's 15 bucks 14.95 you can then own the show on your phone so you can watch it and cast it to your tv whenever you want and then 10 more people around the world uh get to watch the show for free as well and through that mode uh which has been quite ingenious and and um only by the grace of god prolific in allowing us to fund um almost three quarters of the show uh it's been uh we've gotten to that point now where this it looks like this will be the standard model going forward um so uh please god that we'll uh we'll we'll get all eight episodes funded sooner than later so we all know exactly what we're filming for season two um right now uh you know as i said we're i think we're we've definitely funded enough for uh six episodes um and um and we're we're going back to um we're going back to shoot i think um not too far from now i don't know that they've released exact dates but in the fall um and uh and they have mentioned we are going to be in utah this time so really excited to to uh to see what utah is like i've never been and it's gorgeous and the set that they've gotten access to is uh has never been used outside of um the the company that had it previously um and for a while it's been you know something that we've looked at and finally i think dallas said uh on the um the uh live stream that he did it was a couple of years trying to get this set and they finally uh got it to happen this this summer um and it's just incredible it's a first century recreation of jerusalem which if you go to jerusalem now it does not exist in that form anymore because of two millennia of of progress and building and uh construction so we couldn't get the kind of space and the kind of vistas that we're going to have for season two that we're getting it's it's i can't wait there's video on i think facebook and on youtube uh and it's just it's one of the most incredible sets i've ever seen and i've worked behind the scenes on movies giant movies with 200 million dollar budgets um before i was an actor and uh i i i've never seen anything that looks like this it's like a football field by a football field and it's huge it's enormous we are talking to jonathan rooney uh the series is the chosen he plays the role of jesus christ and we'll continue to delve into things maybe you didn't know about season one but also as we're just hearing uh upcoming season two as we continue on rick and bubba university the podcast jonathan bubba here um talk to us about season two how if you get all eight episodes shot how far in the jesus storyline will you be going and the second part of that question is assuming you shoot in the fall when will ballpark we be able to see it you know we're kind of anxious we're americans we like it quick and this thing has has been delayed longer than i wanted to get it out now that's right yeah i want to see it i want to see it uh unfortunately the answer to those questions barbara are beyond my pay grade um all i can say is uh jonathan wait a minute you're jesus this is where i have to remind you i have to remind bubba again jonathan rooney is an actor and but you know what else we're learning it is very like uh the god that we serve and we love and we're so thankful to he's never been one to get in a hurry uh you know his timeline and our timeline it's never it's never you don't rush the great i am [Laughter] and if you'll remember uh there was even one one moment where he said well uh it is not uh no one knows the day nor the hour not even the son only the father so i have to defer to my father so let's talk about though do you do you look i mean there there's so many great stories and i i think one of the things that i liked about the first season you and and when i say this i hate to phrase it this way but some of the minor stories okay yeah right you you did those in such a great way the the water to wine stuck in my mind the way it was done um you know it just had a very spiritual feel to it and you know a lot of times when you're talking and we all do this i mean we have favorites and things and i mean you you think of lazarus you think of the crucifixion easter morning uh i mean are you looking forward to those uh will they be challenging to you or yeah if you if you're sitting there you're going here's what i hope we'll do you may know what you're gonna do but yeah or like on set i'm crucified today i mean how do you get ready for that yeah well hopefully we we've got a few years before that happens so i'm i'm i'm trying not to think too much uh about that but to the question what will second season do you have an idea do you know do you know some of the second caesar knows well i know but i i think i think dallas jenkins knows well you well yeah but uh he doesn't necessarily share that all that information for for good reason so you don't know what you're doing i do know i do know uh because we he has talked publicly about the fact that we're going to be uh working on the sermon of the mount so um that that is something that uh uh in fact i i just started taking um i just started this um online uh class a three week class on the sermon on the mount just to get more perspective to get more knowledge to get more insight from from a specific scholar who's written uh books uh like over 30 books on the new testament and one in particular about the sermon on the mount um so so i know that there's that that's happening uh i haven't received all the scripts that i i don't know that all the scripts are completely ready for the actors to even see they usually have a process of going through um different consultations and and dallas just talked openly about this as well like they they they basically get together in a room uh on this sort of writer's retreat this writer's camp they hash out the plot points they figure out what where the storylines are going generally and then they start working on individual episodes and the there's a checks and balance system so once they finish the scripts the scripts get sent off to our theological consultants to kind of weigh in on whether or not there may be any major you know theological stumbling blocks for any specific group of people that could you know cause um some kind of concern um but they they're such smart and thoughtful and um um faithful writers writers that are faithful to the word that um you know i don't know it's usually never anything that it seems from what i've understood in the writing season one there's never anything that's really so kind of controversial they're like we're like no you can't do this you'll ruin the world will explode the internet will shut down if you film this scene so it never really gets to that point but it's kind of just like okay well how how are these um scenes going to play with with certain denominations certain audiences and uh and just getting the feedback you know from the different uh consultants has been hugely um i think uh informative and helpful and made for a better show and then once it goes to that process and once all the actors um you know have are committed for the season and they've everybody signed their deals then uh the scripts get sent out and then we you know meet up weeks later or a month later or you know depending on what your role is maybe you know several days later if you're a smaller part of your day player um so so today the the long answer is um the sermon on the short answers the sermon on the map um and the long answer is i know that there's there's a lot more than than just that happening um i also can say that uh you know i i'm pretty sure we will get to the crucifixion and the resurrection beyond that um i i can't even speculate i don't even know if they've figured that out yet i know they had a a massive retreat uh up up in oregon last week to discern and to hash out all the major storylines over the next six seasons so i'm really curious as to the fruits of that labor that week of labor there because uh you know what's what's going to happen who's going to be left how long is it going to take us so there's a lot that we don't know uh and people don't realize that they think we kind of know everything that's going to happen um from the beginning um but we don't we're kind of like we're right there with you guys saying i don't know i i i'd love to get i'd love to know what's happening as well yeah i i'm supposed to be at the sermon on the mount i mean oh are you well it was like you know the people who are investing they say hey if you invest at this level you get to be at the sermon on the mountain you didn't tell me and and and i i mean i've been i think now that it's in utah i'm thinking you know i got to get my travel plans together and uh yeah and i've and i've actually been uh hired to be the person that as you're giving the sermon on the mount i scream out i'm not sure about that and then you go to explain no i know no that i think our you clarify what do you mean yeah he's from southern israel but what i'm saying and and we have other questions and bubba and i will go back and forth but i do want to ask that question because you think of god's timing and i don't know when they'll actually be available who knows the state of the world but boy if there was ever a time especially for our country to hear the sermon on the mount it it it is right now uh and uh so i know that will be a beautiful beautiful scene yeah i'm i'm really looking forward to it there's there's so much and you know just just from a um a scriptural perspective it's like you know they're some of the theory is that the sermon and the beatitudes were a collection of moments of you know various sermons that jesus put together all kind of for the purposes of of you know matthew's gospel luke and you know for the purposes of reading a gospel like it's there presented as one thing but then you start reading historians and scholars it's like well it could have been said at different times because if you look at the whole narrative as a story it's there's a lot happening and could could people have digested all of that as once at once and so the challenge then for for me uh is if we're shooting it as as it's written in the gospels and it did happen all at once it's like all right there's there's so much there oh yes um how do you make that presentable how do you as a character make that digestible for the audience and and so that that becomes my challenge and to communicate the truths even just beyond the words but through just you know allowing the spirit to to work through me and and and make it um make it something that uh people come away with if they've never especially if they've never heard the sermon or any of the beatitudes before to to really you know hopefully bring something that could be life-changing to them uh you know one of the scenes that i don't think i was trying to think of the other movies i don't think i've ever seen portrayed or at least not very much in depth that i think is one of the more interesting uh is the road to emmaus when jesus is walking and they don't know it's him it's after the crucifixion after the resurrection and he basically explains the whole thing during the walk and i i really hope that because you guys have the format a little longer format to do that i hope that scene is in there and it's uh it's it's amplified a little bit let me say it yeah i think watching you act and play jesus that would be a great role for you and you you guys you guys do a good job and i've talked about on this we have a sense of humor which means god must have one because he made us in his image and of course just like everything else it can be corrupted by the adversary or it can be used by the way he intended but to bubba to your point and we see this in other places but he he literally says to these guys hey what's been going on yeah as if he doesn't know to hear what they would say and they're like hey man where are you hey where you been man this guy's been resurrected from the dead have you not heard about this but i i like it but he prompts the conversation like so what's been going on and the fact that he goes back and just ties it all together and i think that's the scene that we don't see enough right yeah yeah i agree i would i would agree with you um i think uh last in july i had the opportunity uh to to do one of the live streams and um i think we talked about one of the or was in an interview uh some you know somebody asked what are some of the scenes that you'd like to do and you mentioned lazarus and that for me exploring the lazarus the relationship between jesus and lazarus and what would have prompted such a very precise and concise description and jesus wept in the the the scriptures like what was the relationship that pushed that you know that that made that phrase so important to write down and to note you know to to so um to really to focus on and uh so i'm really excited i'm hoping that again i don't know um that there's the opportunity to explore that you know because that's part of jesus's humanity just relationships being social and um emmaus is is another one where you know where what were all of those references that you know that he made to himself throughout all of scripture like how far did he go is it even beyond are there moments that on on adamas you know on the road there that he's reciting scripture that maybe the rest of us wouldn't have even thought of right to him you know um so yeah that that'd be great i think um i i can only speculate along with you guys man i'd love to see that as well so here's open we're talking to jonathan rooney and we'll continue we're going to dig in some other things that he's got going on and continue to talk about the incredible uh series the chosen if you've never seen it when we continue on rick and bubba university the podcast now i do want you to know bubba that uh a lot of times when we're dealing with insurance let's just call it hey this is the insurance agent that that my daddy had and he handed him off to me and now that now i'm dealing with the son of the of the dad that my dad dealt with and it's all the same insurance place this is where i've always had my car insurance is where i've always had my homeowner's insurance have you ever stopped to think that you might be paying 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scriptures you're sticking to being sure it's theologically sound but there are moments that like we were just talking about where where there is some speculation yeah yeah the uh whenever we have the extra biblical material which is the stuff that's not in scripture um it's it's there not because we're trying to train to change scripture not because we're trying to rewrite the bible not because we're trying to you know mold characters into what we think how we think they should have been written in the bible no it's it's it's basically you know trying to flesh out the stuff that's in the uh scriptures sometimes you know it's only there's only a couple lines you know you've got a couple lines of mentioned about zebedee you know father james and john um but what happens you know in what would their lives have been like how do we flesh out a realistic three-dimensional portrait of these people without speculating and without doing that in a way that uh that honors them honors the intention of what's written about them and honors the gospels um and so it's a lot of the writing process is prayer and discernment um and then just you know reading what's there and and allowing the spirit to guide the writers through um those moments in those characters uh journeys that can um make sense and also using um you know history and archaeology and and for knowledge of first century history and first century culture we have a rabbi as part of the consultation staff um that that can give us all the things that as christians we may not have known growing up we may not have been exposed to um but then what happens is you end up seeing uh a more uh well-rounded portrait of these people their lives what it meant to be growing up jewish in the first century and then to kind of become this counter-cultural revolutionary within his uh community what might that have looked like so um you know the speculation uh for us and our team is always done with scripture being the priority serving scripture and making sure that it is biblically sound um but you know the first thing the first frame of the tv show you see is to remind people that this is a tv show this is not a replacement for your bible this is not a replacement for your bible studies this is not a replacement for church it's a tv show that is inspired by all of those things uh in in a way that we want to then now utilize this storytelling format to to bring the the narrative of christ his message his purpose to those who maybe have never heard it or to strengthen their relationship with their god in a way that they had maybe never even anticipated or maybe never even realized needed strengthening so um that's kind of been the goals and the challenges and and um for the writers and the creators of the show and then for me personally having affected my own walk and having brought me deeper into my walk with christ it's now become a part of my own sort of personal ministry as an artist um you know evangelizing for for god and trying to use my position to to affect positive change in the culture because the only way the culture is going to change is if the people change um and how do you do that well you do that by making um work by doing work of of of godly quality that that honors god in the highest way and makes people feel something and feel good and really uh impacts them profoundly um you know you ca i would just think about this today like there's a there's only so much change a theological argument will have on somebody's you know personal perspective we saw that trying to win an argument versus pointing people to jesus you know it's it's when we get into right when we get into this we're trying to win arguments let me tell you that's confusing the most the people that are lost that that don't they they're trying to be introduced to the basic tenets of the gospel and they hear all of us that say well we understand it we've been redeemed and now watch us argue over something that has nothing to do with your salvation and we're trying to win an argument versus trying to tell you how wonderful god was that he redeemed us through grace and mercy and came to us we couldn't come to him you know and paul warns us about this having these few foolish arguments in front of the lost that we shouldn't engage in those so yeah i'm glad you guys didn't didn't take that on jonathan speak a little bit about the technique that you have to do to apply your art to this uh you're an actor are there special things you have to do to get ready to to play jesus i mean you obviously have the look going there but i mean do you do you let your hair grow out a little longer your whiskers do you have to do anything special uh i mean yeah first of all i gotta check my ego at the door and you know eat a healthy serving of humble pie before i get into any of this um because um you know if if if you have not the virtue of humility then there are no other virtues that can manifest themselves within your spirit your being i think saint augustine speaks greatly on that on the virtue of humility being the catalyst for all other virtues so when when you look at what it is to be an actor and there's a certain level of notoriety that comes with with um uh being on a show like this um but even just stepping on a stage or stepping in front of people where you know there's going to be it's like when you start digging into the psychology of like why people do this there's a lot of a lot of that comes from ego um for me uh i think there may have been some of that in the beginning or just you know uh finding that people when you're on a stage and you do a scene and you get applause there's this reaction that you're like oh wow that's that you get this adrenaline this this endorphin kind of uh reaction um now as i've gotten older and gotten more involved in my craft and now i i'm playing um christ for this uh series it's forced me to abandon any notions of of ego because it's not about me it's about serving god it's about emptying the role emptying um myself of of uh of all the things that would get in the way of allowing the spirit to to reach people so the way i prepare is i do a lot of praying um i do a lot of uh reading and meditating on the scriptures i i try to i try to listen to what it is that god's telling me as i'm looking at these scripts i still have the my process as far as going through a script and saying like okay how how did this how would this particular scene have played how might jesus have seen it and um the guiding for me the guiding the guiding principles are i believe i hope the same principles that jesus might have applied when just having encounters with people with you know using love and mercy and compassion with everyone he met meeting people where they're at so if i'm reading about a scene where jesus encounters somebody that needs healing how am i approaching that am i approaching that with love or am i do i have some kind of judgment about their appearance about you know well they're from samaria and the jews and the samaritans never got along like do i allow any of the the you know the the first century society's uh ethical standards to get in the way or am i literally trying to come at this with the heart of god to the best of my very human uh ability as a as a a sinful human being playing this role um am i am i trying to to to get out of that of of my own way and and really um allow christ's heart to shine through in in these moments and and that's what i aspire to do i don't know if i get there but um you know i i i do the best that i can and um and hope that he he takes care of of the rest and anything that you know that i i can't that i don't accomplish in the way that i think i want to um i have to just let go of it i have to again it's a constant ego check because you're like man i wish i wish they used this other take instead of this one and i feel that one was better and you just you kind of let have to let go and be like you know what this is what god allowed them to use and there's a reason that they're using this take over that take and and i just got to pray that it's going to still have the effect that it's meant to have and and uh yeah so i mean humility is a big thing for for me it's like just constantly checking myself and and um where where is where is the ego meter for the day and um trying to let go of it you know as humans it's just it's uh it takes a lot of work it has to be walk around it has to be supernatural you know you have to depend on god to do that in you because we can't do it for ourselves and he and he will do it if we submit to it let me ask you a very like technical question and my wife was furious with me that i didn't ask you this when you were on the show i come in and she said so did you ask him and i said no i never asked him that she goes it's the one thing i asked you to ask you know and uh and and so and that is we i was the couch that night it was not it was not comfortable and and i found myself thinking you know i don't know what jesus is teaching me wait a minute that's just jonathan rooney but back to back i know and i'm just messing with you on that but but back back to this so we know that jesus was not speaking english uh that's correct and so we know that he is jewish we know this yes so what my wife was asking she said he's got some sort of accent going here and i want to know why he picked this accent and how did he come to the conclusion to speak english with this particular accent so i go to you so i go to you okay uh so the accent that i've adopted for many years from the first time i ever played christ on film was for a um a traveling a one-woman show about uh saint faustina who was a polish nun in the mid 20th century who had visions of christ um and uh and so in this show uh we filmed for three days up in washington state i played christ in the visions that she had and i i thought long and hard about this and i realized i had never seen anybody on film portray christ with a regional accent speaking in english regional what do i mean i mean from the middle east nobody ever had christ with a middle eastern accent so i thought about it and i decided to adopt an accent that came from two sources so my father is from egypt um he's got a middle eastern accent his sister-in-law is from palestine she's got a slightly thicker accent in a little bit of a different way so i combined my father's accent and my aunt's accent together and then in speaking english um you know the decision was made to to do the show in english so um at that point i had already done three other short films with dallas and i had been using that accent for about five years and it always kind of it trips a lot of people up uh i've had i've i've had people come up to me who are like from portugal and they're like i'm so happy you used the portuguese accent michael did i um and and people will hear the accent where they're from by some it's like i imagine at pentecost i'm like great that's fine um you know i could have been like oh man my accent's terrible but i'm like no wait no it's not i know it's it's i'm that this is one of the things that i do as an actor is accent work i do a lot of accents it's it's a gift that god has given me and i've used it to play french people british people in fact there was an episode of chicago med that aired last night uh that i was on where i played a british heroin addict so um you know accents have just been something that i've been gifted with i'm also a musician so it's part of that musician's ear sort of um phenomenon and uh and so i i was very intentional about it and dallas loved it and and in fact i think um that he when when we were doing season one i found out i didn't even notice that he sent uh clips from one of the other movies that i did with him as jesus is like here's the accent we want to stick with and then when i met shahar isaac who plays simon peter [Music] he's from israel and he's got an accent and i listened to his phrasings i'm like he sounds kind of like the accent that i that i'm using um in english uh and it's a little it's a little bit thicker it's a slightly there are minor sort of things but um differences but it's essentially the same um uh uh uh muscular vocal musculature is is almost identical so i felt very kind of um additionally validated when he showed up on set and he sounded like that i'm like oh great you see i wasn't i'm not that far off so so but people then don't i'm like is he spanish i'm like well that's you know i don't know no that's just something how's yours now you said that that's one of the things that my wife said she goes it's got a hint of spanish to it i think and i'm like honey he wouldn't be doing a spanish accent that doesn't even make sense and uh but some people think i'm doing an australian accent i'm like that's that's not that's a strategy so it's it's egyptian and and and palestinian correct i would call it a a generic light middle eastern accent because if you do an israeli accent uh it's different it's it first of all it sounds much more modern right people identify it some people then confuse israeli with the french accent because of the the rhodic r's ah so if you are i'm talking like this yeah uh whatever i say with an ar it sounds a cross between french right um and and israeli uh and also the with with aramaic um when you hear people speak aramaic um there's a few of the rhodic r's that are are reminiscent of uh hebrew of uh yeah israeli hebrew but largely um what gives the the accent its quality is the the trilled or the tapped r so for instance if i uh uh uh one uh i'm going somewhere and you hear the r in uh the the words that i'm using now that i'm stressing very very heavily so you can hear the r it's a tapped r if that makes sense it does um so that kind of is the is the overarching quality of the accent that comes out when you hear people speak aramaic even like the chaldeans the iraqi christians when they're speaking uh current modern-day aramaic uh it sort of translates to to what um you know uh we decided to do for the show well see you can tell it was a long way well you can tell but you can tell in the family who's the radio host my wife actually was our news reporter in the early days of the show and did tv and radio news you can tell the reporters like how you let that question go so anyway she was she was right it was actually a good question uh we've got jonathan rooney with us on this edition of rick and bubba university the podcast jonathan i know we're about out of time even for the podcast today and we've enjoyed it but i i wanted to ask you how's your deep south accent yeah have you been working on us um i i i when i if i as i start to listen to you um not just start i have i've been listening to you the whole time i assure you um but um when i listen when i hear and i'm exposed to it there's a tendency i have to want to start adopting your accent so i've been actively trying to not do that it's natural to you it's natural for you to do it now look it is for us too we've talked about this when somebody talks to us in an accident we want to imitate it back to him what is that a is that a problem we have or what is that we're mocking birds you know i i think it's uh a very human response to try to ingratiate yourself within the company that you're that you're talking to so you you want to feel like you understand each other and you get them and you're the same i think there's i'm sure there's a psychological explanation for it uh that's just my your sounds good people think we're being a smart adult can i change something funny here here comes it here no but i think there's a real thing i think it's an actual thing well here's an example which makes bubba's point sadly so my wife and i were in ireland so we went out we went out to one of these from ireland yeah we went out to you know the the island right off the southern part of of of ireland and it's where if you either had to marry into that or you had to be in the family there's no no outsiders live there so they so yeah so they took us there this is the irish of the irish so they take us there and they have these wool shops you know where they have because they're sheep herders and all this so my wife and i are now it's weird when you're the your accent is the spectacle and we're talking inside this this wool shop and the woman says can you tell us where you come from and i went over and i said i'm sorry she goes can you tell us where you come from can you say something can you say something first and i was like honey i think they want us to talk and then they say this and i didn't know this because this island i mean they're almost separated from the world this was what they this is what they said did it come from the place of the cowboys and the indians and i said uh i said what are you talking about and the guide says they only watch westerns here they think you're from texas and so the place from the cowboys and the indians so that was it all right let's talk a little bit before we wrap up though hallo app uh i know you've been that this is a project uh that you're working on as well what what is hallo app and what is that so hallow is an app if you've ever heard of calm or headspace those are meditation apps hallow is a meditation app for christians um there's uh there's a lot of um content on there where if you want to get on like a prayer schedule if you want to learn more about different kinds of prayers um it's there you know it was started by uh these catholic folks um that bring a lot of uh catholic prayer tools and then it's kind of just expanded and so so so many um people that um have been following me that are non-catholic uh have gotten have been writing to me and and really uh responding to what they're getting out of this particular app so uh you know if if you want to be able to meditate as a christian there's not very many options out there for you hallo offers the opportunity to um to really do a deep dive into the scriptures um in a meditative way uh they've got sleep stories which is where i come in so for instance if you want to fall asleep let's say you're having trouble sleeping and you want to fall asleep to uh a story and you just happen to want that story to be out of the bible well hallow's got it and um this was my first project with him i i did uh funny enough i i just did the sermon on the mount so i'm reading from the gospel of matthew um and uh most people they're like you know i was certain that i could get through you know the whole thing but i'm literally out knocked out after the first chapter other people have reported they're like you know i've been having trouble sleeping and i fell asleep listening to the word and i slept soundly for the first time in like months so the feedback has been pretty extraordinary and uh there's there's such an awesome group of people like to work with because they have hearts for jesus and they want they just want people to get to know jesus deeper and they there's songs and there's there's all sorts of stuff where like you're taking the time to breathe and meditate and discern and get to know god on a level that um you know frankly we just don't do for ourselves enough uh as a society uh and and the tools that they allow that they give people to do they're ever expanding but it's just been such um it's been such a blessing meeting with them because they they're doing they're doing something that needs that that the world really needs right now uh in in their own way and it's kind of like what the chosen is doing for tv with with uh you know evangelizing like this this app is doing the same way for bringing uh meditation and peace to people that is not new age you know uh uh agnostic mysticism and all that yeah yeah yeah it's christian and it's it's focusing on christ and and um you know i think it's just a weight a great way to um you know increase holiness in your life and i think we can all use a bit of that hallow.com jonathan for the part that he's on that's h-a-l-l-o-w yeah you if you want a 30-day there's a 30-day free trial um if you go to hallow.com jonathan and in that 30-day free trial you get to hear my sleep stories and then i have they just released another story um i think it's chapter four from the gospel of matthew where jesus is tempted in the desert and uh and a couple of other things that happen in chapter four um and it's all it's all red um uh just uh in in more dulcet tones so that if you do want to try to use it as a sleep aid it usually uh people have no problem just kind of conking out but if you want to listen uh it's just um another way to kind of get your dose of the bible read by me thank you jonathan and thanks for being with us on ricky bubba university if you've never seen the first season the chosen dot tv that just go to www.thechosen.tv they have their own app you can watch it for free uh i'm telling you we loved it many millions have loved it and you will too and then we anxiously await season two and uh jonathan know that that we we all need to join together what you guys are doing needs to be covered in prayer because it certainly will meet the attack of the adversary uh and there's nothing that uh that the the adversary would like more than to uh you know to clip the legs out from under what's going on and you guys are taking he's trying well you know think about what paul said to timothy all who choose to live a godly life will be persecuted uh so that that come that comes with it but uh so look look at that and uh and you press on and and always remember that you are answering the call that god's placed on you and i appreciate you doing that thank you thank you bob i appreciate you guys god bless you thank you jonathan roomie our guest today and thank you for joining us on rick and bubba 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Length: 46min 28sec (2788 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 05 2020