E831 | Bear Grylls - The Greatest Story
Wild at Heart
Wild at Heart
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Bear Grylls is known worldwide for his numerous adventure shows, including Man vs. Wild. In addition, he's one of the youngest climbers of Mt. Everest, and a former SAS (a special forces unit of the British Army) soldier. Bear joins John to talk about his family, his faith, and his upcoming book on the life of Jesus—The Greatest Story Ever Told: An Eyewitness Account. In this candid conversation, Bear shares stories of what makes his heart come alive, his recent wilderness adventure with The Chosen cast, and how writing this book was, in his words, "an Everest of another level for me, the hardest and best thing I've ever done...by miles."
Show Notes
Bear Grylls' new book, The Greatest Story Ever Told: An Eyewitness Account, releases in the U.S. on July 22, 2025, Pre-order it now wherever you buy books. The Times article by Bear Grylls ("To Be Fully Understood, The Christian Faith Must Be Tried") can be read here. John's book referenced in this podcast, Beautiful Outlaw, is available wherever books are sold.
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| 0:00.0 | I think sort of people forget how regular and normal the disciples would have been. |
| 0:05.0 | You know, it's like, bear in mind the average age of the disciples, |
| 0:10.0 | they reckon was between 15 and 28. |
| 0:14.0 | You know? |
| 0:15.0 | We get this idea of all the paintings and the pictures and Peter with his long beard and |
| 0:20.0 | they're old men and they're like, |
| 0:22.2 | all look like Moses and massive muscles. |
| 0:24.5 | You know, they were ill-educated, poor young people |
| 0:28.3 | who were, for 99% of the time, scared, uncertain, |
| 0:34.0 | confused, dazed, you know. And I don't know, I kind of wanted to strip away this kind of vision |
| 0:41.5 | and version of Jesus that I think's 2,000 years of church has portrayed to regular people. |
| 0:48.8 | And the real version is wilder, freer, more irreverent, stronger. |
| 0:55.0 | Come on. |
| 0:56.0 | You know, more beautiful and tender than we'll ever imagine. |
| 1:00.0 | I know, pretty wild, huh? |
| 1:03.0 | Yep, so my new pal, we're going to welcome Bear Grills to the podcast this week. |
| 1:09.0 | He's got a phenomenal message and mission that's going on |
| 1:15.1 | in the world that I want to tell you about that's centered around Jesus. But before we go there, |
| 1:21.3 | now that I've got your attention, let's do what we do every week. If you're new to the podcast, |
| 1:27.2 | we're really big on getting out of the madness, getting out of the chaos for a moment and just taking a moment each time we gather to just let it all go. |
| 1:41.2 | Center ourselves in the love of God. Just breathe. |
| 1:44.8 | Just breathe. |
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