Choosing Christ Over Career: The Arnetts on Faith, Obedience, and America Reads the Bible

Actors and authors Cameron Arnett and BJ Arnett, the husband-and-wife team behind Christ Above Career, share how their lives and work in media are rooted in uncompromising obedience to Christ as they step into their new roles as national spokespersons for America Reads the Bible. Discussing Cameron’s defining moment of turning down a major Hollywood opportunity to follow God’s leading, the couple explains how true discipleship requires “outlasting the unraveling”—letting God strip away worldly structures to rebuild life on Scripture and the Holy Spirit. BJ emphasizes that choosing Christ in their marriage, careers, and public ministry isn’t about personal preference but responding to God’s directives with full devotion. Their excitement for the nationwide Bible-reading initiative flows from a conviction that returning to God’s Word—pure, unfiltered, and proclaimed from cover to cover—is the foundation for personal and national renewal. For them, participating in this event is both an honor and an act of obedience, trusting that God’s Word will accomplish its purpose and call believers beyond salvation into sanctification, lordship, and transformed living.