Jim Bakker Show - Are You A Misfit? - Donna Howell on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2021-12-22
Duration: 03:36


=== Empowering Unqualified Souls (03:09) ===

[00:00:00]  Donna, what made you want to write this book, Your Three Girls?
[00:00:03]  Well, okay, so I was actually just minding my own business one day and my phone blew up.
[00:00:08]  And it's Tom, my dad, and he's out on to date with her.
[00:00:11]  And he says, We just got the most wonderful, amazing idea.
[00:00:15]  Okay, so you know that over our wheelhouse at Skywatch television is, you know, what is the Pope up to?
[00:00:23]  And all these obscure, like, theologies and all of these, like, really, really deep.
[00:00:28]  And he says, the thing that we miss is how to empower a person to say, I've been called by God, but I feel unqualified.
[00:00:39]  I feel disqualified for what God has called me to do.
[00:00:42]  I feel like a misfit.
[00:00:46]  And so we follow, this is actually Tom's brainchild.
[00:00:50]  He was only a Christmas book by far.
[00:00:52]  I mean, we do talk theology.
[00:00:54]  We go so into deep into Moses.
[00:00:56]  It's insane how much Moses was a misfit.
[00:00:58]  The guy is so misunderstood.
[00:01:02]  But ultimately, he said, we got this idea.
[00:01:04]  Nita got this idea.
[00:01:06]  You know, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys.
[00:01:10]  Yeah.
[00:01:11]  How there is this island where everybody feels like they are never going to amount to anything and they're all broken and therefore they're useless.
[00:01:20]  But in this particular cartoon, they are the central, because she begged me last night over a text to say this.
[00:01:29]  There's this moment that people in this country do not realize what this happened, but Rudolph makes a promise in this movie by Rankin and Bass, the 60s movie of Roto.
[00:01:41]  It's a promise that he is going to go rescue the island of misfit toys and find them homes.
[00:01:46]  In the first original release, he does not make good on that promise.
[00:01:51]  The very, very first original release, that first year, they never go back to the island.
[00:01:56]  Now, this is before the internet.
[00:01:58]  This is before people could go on and troll every company that they're mad at and petition things online and tell everybody, go to www.whateverintheworld.com to tell them you're angry.
[00:02:08]  This is before any of that existed.
[00:02:10]  And what they had to do to tell them that they were mad is literally write a handwritten letter and say, I demand that Rudolph come back for the Island of Misfit Toys.
[00:02:21]  And this was a movement.
[00:02:22]  The book goes into, it talks about it.
[00:02:25]  This was a movement that sparked out of all, it was peppered all across the United States.
[00:02:30]  People, viewers all over said, I'm not happy with this.
[00:02:34]  You get your little puppet animators out of Tokyo and you bring them back and I demand you refilm this ending.
[00:02:40]  So you're talking about the 1960s when it first came out, the very first, they did not come back for the island of misfit toys.
[00:02:48]  So the whole country erupted.
[00:02:50]  But what's the point?
[00:02:51]  Why am I saying that?
[00:02:51]  Why does that matter?
[00:02:52]  So that's what a lot of people don't understand.

=== Toys Broken and Whole (00:42) ===

[00:02:55]  But then Tom, he felt so shin the box.
[00:02:58]  What were some of the other ones?
[00:02:59]  With Spot, the Dolly for Sue, that had nothing wrong with her.
[00:03:03]  There's the nesting dolls that has weird wheels.
[00:03:06]  There's a bunch of them.
[00:03:07]  Yeah, the train with the square caboose.
[00:03:10]  There's all these things.
[00:03:11]  And if you look at that from a modern perspective and you say, each one of these toys thinks they're broken.
[00:03:17]  But each one of these toys, as it so often is, church, listen, these toys have not been called to be everybody else.
[00:03:25]  These toys were made by their maker to be exactly what they were.
[00:03:29]  So when we look at that, we go, oh my gosh, I'm also the door meant to break it.
[00:03:34]  And when he does that, take it and run with it.