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Kristen Lagore shared how she turned from being a fan to a host of the hit Christian series, “The Chosen.”

“The Chosen”

In 2020, a couple of friends recommended the show to Kristen, a Christian speaker from Canada. At first, she was hesitant to watch it thinking that it might be boring and lame.

“It’s probably super lame,” she said. “Let’s be real, like can anything good at all come out of Christian media?”

While staying at home during the COVID-19 surge, she finally gave the Bible-based series a shot. Right after watching the first episode, she fell in love right away with the show and how it changed her perspective about who Jesus is.

“I fell in love with it right away, I wept through the whole thing. It changed my life, it changed the way that I see Jesus and how I relate to Him as a friend. I’ve never been able to see Jesus as a friend,” Kristen recalled.

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Kristen Lagore

She became a passionate fan of the show and soon, she was called to be an extra for season 2 of the show. Kristen flew to Texas for the filming and there she met director Dallas Jenkins and his wife Amanda Jenkins.

After coming home from the shoot, she posted an Instagram post about her experience as an extra for her favorite show. What she didn’t is that the video would change her entire life! Producers of “The Chosen” contacted her after watching the video and they told her they wanted to work with her as a host of the show.

“Let’s just say…’a dream come true is a serious understatement in terms of the past 3 months of my life. I went from being a serious SUPER FAN of my favorite TV show called The Chosen to being offered an opportunity to help create some behind-the-scenes videos to get this show out to ONE BILLION PEOPLE.”

From being a passionate fan, she became a behind the scene host of “The Chosen!” You can watch some of her videos on YouTube and hear more about her story on Instagram.

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Comedian John Crist posted a video on his social media on Sunday saying he has changed his views on a few things. In a more serious tone John was asking his viewers why they think churches do things that are, “extra.” Such as helicopter Easter egg drops or make their stage look like an NCAA Tournament court during March Madness.

Saying, “You know why all these churches do all these things? For us.” Continuing he said, “The churches that do all these things are the biggest churches in America…and they’re packed.”

John says he doesn’t blame pastors for what some may think are wild or over-the-top events. Instead he says, “We’ve obviously created the demand.” After posting the video, Pastor Ed Young of Fellowship Church weighed in with a response. Disagreeing with John, saying, “God, not people, demand creativity.” He continued saying, “We’re the ones that did the basketball court.”

Ed was stating that churches can be creative and not, “watered-down.” During the March Madness sermon series his stage was a basketball court and he preached on James 1.

Ed was telling John, “Jesus preached from boat bows on beaches. He drew in the sand. He used humor, and thats what you do and you make a good living at it…Creativity is from God.”

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Here is Pastor Ed Young response: