By Michaela Gordoni
RELATIONSHIP GOALS producer DeVon Franklin makes choices with the knowledge that he has to face God at the end of his life.
“At the end of my life, I have to be accountable with God,” Franklin told Lecrae on the artist’s “Deep End” podcast. “I’ve got to stand before Him and take account for what He called me to do.”
Franklin also recalled all the losses in his life — his father, a divorce, TV deals and more. Through it all, he’s open to love again.
“Love is the whole entire game of our human experience. Period. That’s it,” he explained.
“If we close ourself off to love, we close off ourselves to life and to God,” he shared.
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After a tough divorce, Franklin married celebrity trainer Maria Castillo last year.
His content doesn’t show people’s lives in an ideal way. He knows many of his viewers live in a way that does not reflect Christ, so sometimes his scripts and movies reflect that.
If his content “never shows where people may come from, the content is not gonna resonate,” he explained.
Last year, Franklin hosted a brief one-man show about his life in New York.
It was an “an emotional roller coaster from the depths of the darkness to the heights of the light. A lot of times, we pray for a breakthrough. However, in my experience, most breakthroughs are directly connected to a breakdown,” he said.
“At the end of the day, I think people will end up in a place where they see themselves and me on that stage, and they walk away with hope and motivation because so often as Christians we put on the facade that everything is okay,” Franklin said.
He hopes that his openness about hurt lets others know that it’s okay to be vulnerable in front of God and other trusted believers. Sometimes, that’s the only way to heal.
“The same place that we hurt is where we can heal and where God will do his greatest work. And so doing this one-man show is an opportunity for me to really articulate the hurt, but also God’s healing process if we accept it and if we pursue it,” he said.
One of Franklin’s latest movies, RELATIONSHIP GOALS, came out on Prime Video in February.
Movieguide® gave the movie a -2 rating for too much sex, nudity and language.
The review reads, “RELATIONSHIP GOALS is a fast-paced, hilarious, well-acted romantic comedy with great positive messages supporting Christian faith and godly love. However, the movie has some foul language, sexual themes and occult references showing people’s fallenness before faith that seem more provocative than they should have been.”
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