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Filmmaker Jimmy Jenkins just recently stated how he went to a juvenile detention center and shared the gospel with a 16-year-old kid who believed his criminal activities were beyond God’s forgiveness due to the fact that he dedicated murder.
Jenkins, child of First Baptist Church of Glenarden Pastor John K. Jenkinsinformed The Christian Post that the teenager disrupted him when he was preaching to young transgressors in jail which the subsequent discussion would be the motivation for his brand-new movie, God With United States:
“He said, ‘Hey, Jimmy, ain’t no point of you preaching to us. God can’t save us. You know we’re murderers,'” Jenkins remembered the boy stating.
“He said, ‘Jimmy, man, you make movies. You do this for a living. Can you just teach me the story of Jesus, but just put it in my neighborhood so I can better understand it?'” Jenkins included.
That discussion would motivate God With United States a modern retelling of the Nativity set within an African American neighborhood.
“That’s the people I’m trying to reach: the 16-year-old murderers, the juveniles who are in prison,” Jenkins competed.
He kept that the movie is not an effort to retell the gospel, keeping in mind that he would expect criticism for the movie’s retelling of the scriptural account.
“The whole purpose of this is just to reach a new audience, and sometimes you got to put it in their language for them to understand,” he stated, including that his objective is to share the gospel to individuals who have actually never ever gone to a church.
In addition, the movie having a goes at spiritual hypocrisy and the success gospel, as highlighted in one scene where a female concerns why the pastor drives a Cadillac while she has a hard time economically, regardless of being informed to offer to the church to be blessed.
“I seem like individuals have actually puzzled an excellent God with bad churches,” Jenkins stated.
Eventually, Jenkins hopes his movie would reach individuals who consider themselves to be beyond getting God’s grace, like the incarcerated teen he talked to.
“I would hope that it encourages them to give Jesus another try, and I would hope that it encourages them to go read the story of Jesus again,” he stated.
“I want to reach the worst people. I want to reach the prostitutes. I want to reach the murderers. I want to reach the robbers. …I just want them ultimately to feel like, yo, like God can still use me no matter what I’ve done. God can still use me.”
God With United States is set to launch in choose theaters November 13th. The movie reimagines the scriptural story of Mary Anne Thomas, played by Ashley Olivia Fisher (“Average Joe”and Joseph “Junie” Love, depicted by Aspen Kennedy (“The Forge”as they experience an incredible pregnancy.
Image Credit: YouTube/ GOD WITH United States|Authorities Trailer
Initially released November 04, 2026.
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