{"id":32247,"date":"2024-02-05T11:05:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T16:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=32247"},"modified":"2024-02-05T16:49:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T21:49:27","slug":"the-chosen-actor-jonathan-roumie-says-hes-on-a-mission-from-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2024\/02\/the-chosen-actor-jonathan-roumie-says-hes-on-a-mission-from-god.html","title":{"rendered":"‘The Chosen’ Actor Jonathan Roumie Says He’s on a ‘Mission’ From God"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As Dan Akroyd said in “The Blues Brothers,” actor Jonathan Roumie is “on a mission from God.” Roumie, a devout Catholic, told CBN News that he sees his work playing Jesus on the hit series “The Chosen” as ministry. \u00a0Roumie said it’s “completely humbling to be even in the same sentence as Jesus.”<\/p>\n

He said, “But He kind of put me here,” Roumie said after exhaling his emotion. “So I can’t shy away from the association completely. There is, for me, a sense of mission about what I’m doing, and it happens to be in the form of entertainment. And that’s the gifts that I was equipped with by God, I believe.”<\/p>\n

Roumie continued, “I’m just kind of following where He’s leading me. And my entire life and career has led me to this point, and what happens going forward and, where God puts me and how He develops my career is up to Him. I just pray to always be complicit in His designs and to not try to steamroll with my own hopes and desires.” As an actor who believes in the divine inspiration of the show’s source material, the Bible, Roumie knows where his character is heading. With the lingering crucifixion hanging overhead, the actor said it’s perhaps more important now than ever to be “present,” personally and professionally.<\/p>\n

Season four, which debuted in theaters, centers on the persecution of the disciples as Jesus prepares His perplexed and, at times, discouraged followers for what is coming. Without an intentional effort to stay in the present \u2014 a practice Roumie said he’s learned from Jesus Himself \u2014\u00a0it would be easy to lose sight of his work, of the “mission.” He explained, “As an actor, I have to kind of be careful not to sort of telegraph too much, because I’m then also then not present. So as long as I’m present, everybody knows \u2014\u00a0I don’t have to fill in the audience’s minds with what’s going to happen; they already fill that in.”<\/p>\n