{"id":19310,"date":"2022-05-02T22:22:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T02:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=19310"},"modified":"2022-05-02T22:23:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T02:23:43","slug":"actor-tc-stallings-shares-how-he-found-god-hope-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2022\/05\/actor-tc-stallings-shares-how-he-found-god-hope-is-coming.html","title":{"rendered":"Actor TC Stallings Shares How He Found God: “Hope is Coming”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cHope is coming,\u201d TC Stallings tweeted out with a link to a clip from his new movie, \u201cNo Vacancy<\/a>,\u201d in theaters on May 9. Stallings plays Cecil Johnson, a recovering addict befriended by a news reporter investigating a story about a church trying to open a homeless ministry during the 2007 economic crisis. Stallings sat down recently with \u201cThe Prodigal Stories Podcast\u201d and opened up about his walk with God.
\nUnlike his character in \u201cNo Vacancy,\u201d Stallings didn\u2019t reveal a former life of addiction, but he did talk about his experiences as a \u201chabitual\u201d Christian. That changed in college. The \u201cWar Room\u201d star played football and faithfully participated in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA). He said of his spiritual life in college, \u201cI\u2019m still cussing, I\u2019m listening to cussing music. I did whatever I wanted because I didn\u2019t think God cared about those things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Someone in a one-on-one Bible study challenged him to do better. Like many seekers with an existential crisis, Stallings then looked for an answer to what an authentic follower of Christ looked like. He decided to start at the source- the Bible. Stallings\u2019 faith was changed after that. In the podcast, he went on to say, \u201cI can see in Scripture what it means to be a Christian. And if God ever used the Bible to look for His Christians, He needs to be able to find me. That was how I started to look at it \u2014 not what people said, what God said a Christian is. It was from that point on, that one Bible study that one night from a kid who kept pursuing having a Bible study with me, a one-on-one Bible study, pretty much changed the way I saw what being a Christian was all about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stallings\u2019 career has been a reflection of that change. After leaving football for acting, he has gone on to act in numerous Christian films, often portraying men who struggle to find out what it means to live an authentic faith. In \u201cWar Room,\u201d his character is a lapsed nominal Christian whose outwardly successful life hides a troubled marriage and role as an absent father.<\/p>\n

In \u201cGod\u2019s Compass,\u201d he plays a Christian doctor struggling to give control as his newborn struggles for life, and his mother takes in a delinquent teenager who initially intended to rob his character\u2019s wife. In \u201cNo Vacancy,\u201d Stallings will participate in a movie showing Christians in action as this movie, based on a true story, shows a church trying to purchase a motel to make housing for the homeless. \u201cIt\u2019s all true,\u201d says Stallings, \u201cand I love that.\u201d Considering the projects that Stallings has chosen to use his skills in, his faith is all true as well.<\/p>\n

Cecilia Buchanan is first a follower of Christ, wife to her wonderful husband, and blessed mother of three beautiful girls. She is an avid Inklings nerd and would spend all day reading if she could. She has a passion for writing about Christian living and culture, homeschooling, and adoption. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cHope is coming,\u201d TC Stallings tweeted out with a link to a clip from his new movie, \u201cNo Vacancy,\u201d in theaters on May 9. Stallings plays Cecil Johnson, a recovering addict befriended by a news reporter investigating a story about a church trying to open a homeless ministry during the 2007 economic crisis. 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