Welcome to the Eric Metaxa show.

They say it's a thin line between love and hate, but we're working every day to thicken that line, or at least to make it a double or triple line.

Now here's your line jumping host, Eric Mattaxas.

Welcome to the Eric Mattaxas show.

It's summer.

Every once in a while, I get to drive the car when Daddy's away.

And Eric is away at the moment working on his book on The Revolution, which he talks about a lot on the show.

So he is doing that now, but we have a very special guest, Dallas Jenkins from The Chosen.

And from the movie, What If, that you made 15 years ago that is coming back for a limited

release in theaters.

Welcome to the program.

Yeah, thanks so much for having me.

It really means a lot.

Yeah.

So in case any of our listeners out there haven't heard of you, I think that that means

they're probably dead because chosen is a big deal it's a big hit and uh you know

unless you've been living under a rock which some people you know there are some people out there

but most everyone has heard about uh the chosen terrific show um so thank you for making that well thank

you and yeah and there's obviously of course a listener right now who's heard of it but hasn't seen it or who's been skeptical. We always like to say that at least 80 percent of our viewers were reluctant. They either thought, oh, it's going to be a cheesy, faith-based Jesus story or a Bible show. I've seen plenty of Bible things. I don't need to see another one.

It's not going to be very good. Or they're concerned about the faithfulness to Scripture.

They've maybe heard some rumors or some misunderstandings or some, and I know you guys with the Metaxa show have never experienced anything like that where you're, you know, there's

negative things said about you. So I never try to force anyone to watch the show, but I will say at least

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