Christmas with the Chosen

I love the Chosen series. I was looking forward to seeing a new episode on the big screen. Instead I saw a thrown together 30 or so minute clip of bad acting, poorly written dialogue, surrounded in insincere testimony of actors reading off a prompter. It is unfortunate that those who have not seen the series will likely steer away from it after seeing this. I felt as if it was a cash grab. They could have made one of their best episodes surrounding the birth, and really dropped the ball. No one is as saddened by this, as I.

It has been a long since I had a theatre experience since COVID protocols.

This show was soo good.

Kept the same production, artistic values of other Chosen episodes.

The crew really brought all the emotional factors of nativity and birth of Jesus into the show.

Really loved a lot.

I have faithfully watched the Chosen series and was looking so forward to 2hrs of the birth of Jesus! I was waiting on messenger visits, shepherds, Herod.... Basically, I figured it would be a like watching a double episode focused solely around Christ's birth. Instead, it was over an hour of music videos and artist's thoughts. I love worship music....but I went to watch a story. By the time the movie actually started, I was tired, bored, and distracted. Also, the back and forth from BC to AD was confusing to folks who weren't familiar with the whole story/new to learning about Christ. Just not a movie I would recommend.

Excellent music! If you open your heart and really pay attention to what the words mean, it will bring you to tears. The monologs bring so much TRUTH. A great time to listen to our disobedience and God's Grace over and over as we are now in times of great disobedience.

Besides the musical performances, and monologs, they also showed the Pilot Episode for The Chosen called The Shepard. This episode shows you the birth of Christ though the eyes of a Shepherd. If you don't already know, shepherds slept outside and were dirty so they were seen as very low. When you think about that while watching these episode, it puts so much meaning and emotion to what you are seeing on screen. I highly recommend this Christmas Special as well as the 2021 Christmas Special titled The Messengers. And of course, the actual multi season show, The Chosen. #getusedtodifferent #peoplemustknow #comeandsee #thechosen.

Some very nice Christmas musical selections, traditional, modern and original. The extra narratives provided some interesting information.