After completing THE CHOSEN’s last shooting day, series creator and director Dallas Jenkins described standing in front of a familiar boat and reflected on how personally God had met him along the way.
“Yes, He’s the God of the masses, but He’s the God of the individual,” Jenkins said in a CBN News interview released Sept. 30.
The boat helped bring that enormous undertaking down to something he could point to. Jenkins identified it as the same vessel audiences saw in Season 1; the final scene shot featured the disciples aboard a boat, too.
“We’ve done the work that we set out to do. God provided everything we needed,” Jenkins said.
For years, people had asked how he felt, he explained, while another shooting day or another season still waited ahead. Now he could answer without that unfinished work hanging over him. He said he could not think of something he wished had gone differently or something he wished he had received more of.
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“I’m so grateful,” he said.
Asked about the series’ legacy, Jenkins divided his answer between what happened on set and what happened when people watched. The first mattered because, in his view, the team had kept the same purpose as its audience grew. He wanted the work itself, rather than the size of the audience, to remain at the center.
“We’re still trying to do the work for God. We’re still humbled. We’re still surrendered,” he said.
The other legacy reaches beyond the crew. Jenkins said people around the world had told him the show helped them know and love Jesus more, and he hoped that would continue. He described that relationship — not simply watching a successful television series — as the result that mattered most.
His own faith had changed, too, though not because he had discovered belief for the first time. Jenkins said he had been a believer as long as he could remember and already knew God’s power. Making the show, he explained, had deepened his understanding of God’s intimacy with people and His attention to individual hearts.
For families wondering what comes next, THE CHOSEN’s official Season 6 page still places the next streaming chapter ahead: Nov. 15, 2026, on Prime Video. That season follows Jesus’ final day, with the Crucifixion story also planned for a theatrical release in spring 2027.
Deadline reported the announced theatrical dates as March 12, 2027, for the Season 6 finale and March 31, 2028, for the Season 7 premiere, which depicts the Resurrection. Those dates concern specific theatrical chapters; they do not mean the complete final season is already available.
Movieguide® previously reported actor Jonathan Roumie’s own production farewell, another reminder that the cast’s goodbye and the audience’s goodbye happen on different calendars. For Jenkins, the cameras stopping brought relief, but his closing reflection looked beyond a finished shoot: a large undertaking had made God’s personal care feel nearer.
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