CHURCH CONCERT SPARKS OUTRAGE – AND IT’S A SYMPTOM OF SOMETHING DEEPER

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Segment 1:

• A historic church rents its space for a secular concert—sparking outrage from the Bishop of Fulham.

• Todd raises a key question: What happens when churches become concert venues instead of houses of worship?

• Calls out “fun-gelical” trends that turn reverence into entertainment—and why this drives deconstruction.

Segment 2:

• Carl Trueman pens a blistering open letter to the Church of England amid doctrinal collapse.

• Divorce is ravaging Christian families—are churches equipped to respond biblically?

• Spurgeon’s college in England shuts its doors—a symbolic loss in the spiritual battle.

Segment 3:

• The “Wide World of Christian Stories” includes: Hindu idol installations, Chuck E. Cheese for adults, and “Spawnism.”

• Cultural confusion and spiritual idolatry are rising in the West—and it’s not subtle anymore.

• Todd jokes about plantar fasciitis, but gets serious about where modern worship is headed.

Segment 4:

• Eugenics is back—disguised in polite modern language.

• A British teacher defends child sacrifice; 1 in 3 pregnancies in Great Britain ends in abortion.

• Christians remain the world’s most persecuted group—yet many churches remain silent.

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0:00.0	Ritchin Radio begins in three, two, one.
0:07.0	You are gods, little G. You are gods because you came from God.
0:12.0	When I read in the Bible where he says, I am, I just smile and say yes, I am too.
0:17.0	God came from heaven, became a man, made man into little gods. We have the potential and the
0:23.5	capacity through a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ to know God, but that does not mean we are
0:29.5	God. The Bible is very clear. There is only one God, and he will not share his glory with another.
0:37.3	It's time for Wretched Radio with Todd Freel. God and he will not share his glory with another.
0:40.8	It's time for Wretched Radio with Todd Friel.
0:46.3	What's happening?
0:49.0	We're going to church, baby.
0:50.9	Sounds like we're going back in time. We're doing both.
0:52.0	This is Wretched Radio.
0:59.6	Let's go to an historic church in London and weep.
1:11.7	It's the Abba. It's the Abba. It's the daddy. Can we just put that rumor to rest once and for all, by the way?
1:14.8	I think it was in the 1960s, could be off on the date.
1:23.7	It was a professor who was the first one to determine that the Aramaic word for the male parent means daddy.
1:26.6	Abba, it's just your daddy.
1:32.0	And you're just as kids. It was Yoakim Yerameas.
1:37.9	What? That was his name. How you know it is? I looked it up. Yoakim Yerameas. He later did.
1:46.6	He did recant, though. Later on. It did. And I think the reason it caught on is because of the evangelical trend to make God imminent.
1:54.5	Forget this consuming fire business. No, he's our daddy. And you're just his kid. And this is a trend that has not helped anybody. And it is a trend that I actually just saw alive and well was watching.
2:00.8	It was give or take 15 minutes,
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