Another Scandal? How To Process Older Christians Falling To Sin

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Segment 1 • When can we address an event without it being gossip? • As we get older, the temptations and challenges that we face change too. • We’re not gossiping about anyone - but these are warnings that apply to everyone. Segment 2 • A respected Christian author admits to an 8-year affair. How did this happen? • As we get older, we can get bogged down with fatigue and complacency. • If we grow soft and lethargic, our theology leans that way too. Segment 3 • Older Christians don’t automatically become wiser. • When leaders aren’t held accountable, they can drift in silence for years. • Isolation makes us vulnerable. If no one can speak truth and accountability into your life, you’re in danger. Segment 4 • We will not be free of temptation and sin until this life is over. • Don’t wait until it’s too late - be on the lookout for signs of “softening”. • 5 warning signs: Bible boredom, church indifference, gospel apathy, worldly comfort, and minimized sin. ___ Thanks for listening! Wretched Radio would not be possible without the financial support of our Gospel Partners. If you would like to support Wretched Radio we would be extremely grateful. VISIT https://fortisinstitute.org/donate/ If you are already a Gospel Partner we couldn’t be more thankful for you if we tried!

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0:00.0	Wretched Radio begins in three, two, one.
0:08.0	God gave me a Ferrari because I am a Ferrari. You're a Ferrari too.
0:13.0	When God made you, he had all the options put on. You are fully loaded and totally equipped.
0:20.0	So do this with me. Where did we ever come up with
0:23.1	the style of preaching we have today? There is some entertaining preaching but not convicting
0:27.4	preaching and the legacy has been tragic. It's time for Wretched Radio with Taunt Friel.
0:33.5	Guess what scandal we're not going to talk about. Sort of. This is Ratched Radio. Yeah, there's a big
0:42.0	breaking, ugly in the evangelical world. New York Times, they've got a big splashy headline
0:49.1	about the tumble of a high-profile evangelical Christianity today, pretty much any religious news outlet,
0:56.1	and plenty of secular outlets.
0:58.1	Happy to report, a high-profile Christian has been revealed as having an affair for the last
1:05.8	gulp.
1:06.9	Eight years.
1:08.3	Oh, how the world loves to talk about these stories. But evangelicals need to be a little bit slower on our role.
1:14.9	Slower in our role. Not so quick to speak. We need to check some boxes before we go about the business of blah, blah, blah, blah, and about what everybody is blah, blah, blah, blah. Is the story in question widespread? For the most part,
1:31.5	is it public knowledge? If it's not, I got to zip it. If it is, that doesn't automatically
1:38.9	give me a green light, but it is a box I can check to say, okay, I'm not contributing to the spreading of an ugly narrative.
1:46.9	That's not my job. That's not a Christian's job at all. We can talk about these things if we check
1:54.6	boxes. If all we're doing is, hey, did you hear about this author who took a tumble after being married for 47 years?
2:04.3	Uh-oh. First of all, I'm spreading information that probably doesn't build up the body. It's probably
2:12.1	getting closer to gossip. And it's probably motivated wrongly. It doesn't help. And it's probably motivated wrongly it doesn't help anything so i want to
2:23.6	make sure that one of the first boxes i consider is does everybody know about this that's that box
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