Jonathan Roumie, the Catholic actor best known for his role in “The Chosen” as Jesus Christ, is taking time this Christmas season to remind his fans, and indeed everyone across the world who will listen, of the importance of prayer and faith for the Christmas season.
Roumie is doing so by helping highlight Hallow’s Advent Pray 25 challenge. Hallow is a prayer app and the Advent Pray 25 challenge helps walk Christians through C.S. Lewis’s writings, hopefully to help them form a deeper and closer relationship with Christ.
Appearing on Fox News Channel’s “The Story” to discuss the app and how it helps bring prayer to the forefront for Christians of any and every denomination, Roumie said that the app gives thousands of options for everything from Bible readings to music and is about providing “something for everyone.”
He said, “Your life is only enriched when you have a relationship with your Creator, and this app gives you literally thousands and thousands of ways to do just that, whether it’s scripture readings, Bible, music. Whatever your inroad is to a deeper relationship with Christ, Hallow has an option for you. Whatever denomination of Christianity you might fall under, Hallow has an option for you. There’s something for everyone.”
Continuing, Roumie added that the app and the features it provides will help people develop a sense of peace and serenity, saying, “It’s really going to give people a level of peace and serenity that they’re really looking for right about now.”
Roumie also spoke about how “surreal” it was to play Jesus for “The Chosen,” saying, “If people are somehow drawn to the person of Jesus because they’ve seen my portrayal and maybe they never heard of him or knew who he was or knew very much about him, but now they want to go figure out for themselves, like, ‘Well, what did he really say? Is this real? Was he real? Is this true? Who was he and why did he change the world irrevocably 2,000 years ago? Like, what is it about him?’”
Continuing, he added that that introduction to Jesus got many people interested in Christianity who then went on to dig into it at a deeper level, saying, “And they go and dive into the Bible for themselves or they get on to this path of exploration and wanting to know Christ on a deeper level, then my job is done. To do that for me is probably the most humbling career path that God could have ever brought me down.”
And. commenting on what’s going on in “The Chosen” right now, Roumie said, “It’s becoming more difficult now to stay sort of strictly within Jesus’ followers in that community. Everybody’s now talking about Jesus. The authorities, Roman and the Jewish leaders of his community, aren’t very happy with how things are going in their towns. So, it’s getting a little more difficult for Jesus’ ministry and I think that Jesus knows it. He sees his followers starting to realize the weight of what’s to come.”
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