Crowd-Funded Christian Series ‘The Chosen’ Just Received the Best Christmas Present – Opinion

Back in April, my colleague Duke wrote about “The Chosen” and how meaningful the Christian streaming series has been on his walk as a believer in Christ (see Come and See: The Best Show Ever About Jesus Christ, The Chosen)

At the time, the series’ second season had just launched.

His words were:

Thank the Lord that during this time I found a show about the life of Jesus Christ and His Apostles called “The Chosen” and it is one of the best things I have ever watched.

Ever.

The history of my short time on this planet.

This concept is simple, but it’s unique. T.V. has seen many different stories. T.V. has shown endless stories of Jesus’ time on Earth. You can do a story about certain passages from scripture in 2, 3, or 5 hours but you can’t put all that happened in between those famous events that have been told numerous times. Although the Bible doesn’t go into every minute, or even every week of the Bible’s story, it does tell you what Christ and His disciples did before and after his miracles were reported.

Dallas Jenkins, a man by the same name as the creator of the show, conceived of creating a multi-season series about Jesus. He also wanted to tell a story about historical events.

That, in and of itself, would be a daunting task, but the other amazing part of this is that “The Chosen” is now the largest crowd-funded project in history and is being paid for by people that are just in love with this show and I happen to be one of those people.

 

In an email, the show announced that it would continue with Season Three. Because of the support from loyal viewers, they believe the new season could be made in 2022 according to Washington Times.

The Washington Times

As of June, “The Chosen” had garnered more than 200 million online views and raised $22 million from viewers wishing to underwrite future episodes.

Those numbers have grown in the months since, aided by the record-setting Christmas special “The Chosen: The Messengers” which had a ten-day run on 1,500 movie screens nationwide.

The Washington Times has shared an earlier quote of Dallas Jenkins, series creator and executive producers. It gives a kind of sneak peek at next season (though it is not yet published).

During the September 2021 filming of that Christmas program, Mr. Jenkins expressed optimism about the scripts and stories for the show’s third season.

“I’m currently finishing up the writing of season three, and we are planning to start filming early 2022,” Mr. Jenkins said in an interview on location in Goshen, Utah.

“I never want to get ahead of myself, but we’re covering some ground and covering some stories that the fans I know are going to be extremely excited about, that the scripts are turning out great,” he said.

It’s a significant sum of money, at $22 million. But while they don’t share the final tally, it’s not cheap to make quality television programming like this. Keep in mind, however, that anyone can watch the program for no cost. That’s right. Anyone can watch this story about Jesus — no strings attached. That’s a pretty Christian concept, if you ask me.

“The Chosen” is available in a bunch of ways, including by a mobile app for Google Android and Apple iOS devices, or on the cable channel BYUtv.

You can also simply go to YouTube. Watch the Christmas special below, via The Chosen’s YouTube page.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOTkTBxTxEA

We wish you and your family a happy Christmas and a joyous New Year.

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