Sharing God’s Love Through Storytelling
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Jerry Jenkins shares about his creative writing career and the impact of his books for the Kingdom of God. He talks about the power of The Chosen television show, written by his son Dallas, and their collaboration on a series of novels he is writing based on the show. Jesus used stories to communicate the truth, and Jerry is seeing stories transform hearts and lives today!
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| 0:00.0 | That dramatic music introduces the chosen television series written by Dallas Jenkins. |
| 0:15.0 | Today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, we have Dallas's father here, Jerry Jenkins. |
| 0:20.0 | He's written more than 200 books and the latest is a series of novels based on The Chosen. |
| 0:26.0 | He's going to be talking about the ways of The Chosen is impacting people. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm John Fuller and welcome to the show. |
| 0:32.0 | I don't know if we've had a more prolific |
| 0:34.8 | author here but it's going to be exciting and fun. Jerry's writings have |
| 0:39.2 | impacted so many people for the gospel both both Christian and non-Christian. He writes meaningful |
| 0:45.1 | stories that change his lives. You know the scriptures are full, especially the |
| 0:50.2 | New Testament, full of parables because Jesus taught us in storytelling and the power of stories continues. |
| 0:56.7 | Think of those stories, those are 2,000 years old and you read them today and they still have application to us about the condition of our heart, what we believe |
| 1:04.8 | about God, about fellow man. |
| 1:07.0 | These stories are enduring forever. |
| 1:08.9 | Yeah, and Jerry is a master storyteller. |
| 1:12.1 | We'll hear more in just a moment. |
| 1:13.5 | He's the father of Dallas Jenkins, |
| 1:15.1 | the creator of the chosen television series, |
| 1:17.4 | which I'm pretty sure most in our audience |
| 1:20.5 | have heard about or seen a lot of fans out there. |
| 1:23.7 | Jerry and Dallas have a very close relationship and as I mentioned Jerry has written |
| 1:28.2 | novels based on the show. |
| 1:31.0 | He's married to Diana, they have three grown sons and eight grandchildren. |
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