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Comedian and show host Jeff Foxworthy wasn’t completely sold on the idea of a TV game show contest about Bible facts when he was first approached about doing “The American Bible Challenge” that premieres next Thursday (Aug. 23).

“My first answer was no. I was thinking ‘you can’t do a game show about the Bible,'” Foxworthy recently said during a taping of the show for GSN (formerly Game Show Network). “I prayed about it. I was like, ‘God, is this okay to do a game show about the Bible?'”

The one-hour game show in which faith-filled players on teams compete in an attempt to demonstrate their superior knowledge of Scripture is also about giving. The teams are all playing for winning dollar amounts to go to a charity or a cause.

“Here’s the thing that sold me on it was that people weren’t playing for themselves. Everybody that came on the show was playing to bless somebody,” said Foxworthy, who among his many career accomplishments hosted “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?”

He pointed out that according to the Bible the only group of people that Jesus never got along with was “the religious leaders who only had head knowledge and did not have any heart knowledge.”

“I think the fact that [the concept for the show[ was head knowledge and it was heart knowledge is what sold me on the show. I thought ‘yeah

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article courtesy of TheChristianPost.com

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