Amanda Jenkins, Dallas Jenkins, and Dr. Douglas S. Huffman authored “God’s Goodness for The Chosen: An Interactive Bible Study Season 4,” an eight-lesson Bible study for that follows each episode of Season 4 of “The Chosen.”
Amanda, an author and lead creator of additional content for the award-winning series “The Chosen,” is the wife of the series creator, director, and producer, Dallas Jenkins.
Since its release in 2017, “The Chosen,” which follows the life and ministry of Jesus from the perspective of his followers, has captured the hearts of Christians and non-Christians alike. The series has won multiple K-Love Fan Awards, Dove Awards, and a Movieguide Award.
ChurchLeaders spoke with Amanda and asked her to share the focus of Season 4’s Bible study.
Amanda replied, “Well, like the season itself, it’s dealing a lot with suffering.” Coincidentally, she, her family, and co-writer Huffman found themselves in a personal season of suffering while authoring the study.
“All we could think about was suffering, because we were suffering,” she shared. “But the study is not merely about suffering. What we found as we dug into Scripture and as we’re walking this road ourselves is that God’s goodness eclipses suffering—that God’s goodness, even when he doesn’t remove our suffering, actually eclipses our suffering.”
“Season 4’s study will help those not only learn more about God but, through the lens of the Bible, they will learn more about how to let all the feelings hold their place while still remaining confident in his goodness,” Amanda said, admitting that she is “still learning, even today, but that’s largely the study itself.”
Amanda shared some of her and Dallas’s sufferings, which have surrounding their daughter’s chronic illness.
“Like some of [the] disciples that we see beg for healing but don’t receive it—that’s where we are at [with our daughter],” she explained. “I mean, we’ve asked [God], and we’re not and she’s not receiving that.” Amanda said a lack of clarity surrounds the “medical information” the family needs “to see our way through.”
“So the only thing that we’re learning to do is trust the Lord a day at a time…We are not getting to preach this story from a high place. Quite frankly, we’re coming at it from our faces on the ground,” Amanda said.
“I think that’s reflected in the show itself,” she added. “It’s all been tangled up in how we’re seeing Scripture ourselves in new ways and how we’re experiencing Jesus in new ways and then how we’re able to kind of portray that onscreen.”
