The Most Dangerous Kind of Faith in the Church Today
The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Faith is not supposed to be blind, reckless, or detached from reality. In this episode, J. Warner Wallace (cold-case detective and Christian apologist) takes a hard look at the way many Christians think about "faith" and shows why some popular versions of faith are not just weak—they're dangerous to the church. He explains the difference between unreasonable faith, blind faith, and reasonable (forensic) faith, and why only one of these is actually biblical.
Drawing on years of courtroom experience, Jim unpacks how juries reach verdicts "beyond a reasonable doubt" and why that same standard makes sense for the Christian worldview. He addresses why so many churches avoid apologetics, how "just have faith" can become a license for intellectual laziness, and why that's leaving our kids vulnerable to every counterfeit worldview that comes along. He also tackles commonly misused passages like Hebrews 11 and the story of "Doubting Thomas" to show that Scripture consistently presents a thoughtful, evidential faith—one that welcomes investigation rather than fleeing from it.
If you've ever felt like the only person in your church who cares about evidence, or you've struggled with the idea that faith means shutting off your brain, this episode will help you reframe biblical faith as a reasoned trust grounded in what God has already revealed in history. If this conversation is helpful, please remember to subscribe to the podcast, leave a rating and review, and share it with a friend—your reviews on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all the major platforms really do help more people discover the show and join us in making the case for the Christian worldview.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cold Case Christianity podcast, where a veteran Cold Case homicide detective investigates the truth of the Christian worldview. |
| 0:08.5 | Jay Warner Wallace is a Dateline featured detective, Christian apologist, and bestselling author. |
| 0:13.3 | This weekly show applies real investigative tools to the claims of Christianity. |
| 0:19.4 | Thanks so much for joining us at the Colcase Christianity podcast. |
| 0:22.6 | I am J. Warner Wallace. Okay, this week we're going to talk about something I have talked about |
| 0:27.0 | in the past, but I want to kind of bite the apple from a different side. I, you know, not what, |
| 0:34.4 | 12, 13 years serving the church as a Christian case maker since I've |
| 0:40.6 | been not been employed full-time working cold cases. Yes, I love to consult, but as I look |
| 0:49.3 | at my own consultations over the last five years, I realize that I am spending more and more and more and more |
| 0:54.6 | time just enjoying my grandchildren, number one, but also enjoying the opportunities I'm given to make a |
| 1:01.7 | case, not just for Christianity, but for a certain version of Christianity that I want to |
| 1:08.7 | encourage you. Now, look, if you're listening to this kind of podcast, |
| 1:11.6 | I'm probably preaching to the choir, but also if you're listening to this podcast, you're probably |
| 1:16.0 | someone who says, wow, why doesn't the church take this approach? The church at large. Why is it that when I |
| 1:21.2 | go back to church and I talk about my Christian faith in this very evidential, kind of thoughtful, |
| 1:27.2 | Christian worldview-ish way. |
| 1:29.3 | I seem to be talking to myself and nobody really understands or even cares to understand |
| 1:34.5 | what I'm talking about. Why is the church, I'm just going to say it, why is the church so |
| 1:40.1 | unthoughtful? Now, I realize when I say that, that there's this risk of sounding incredibly |
| 1:46.2 | arrogant, because what am I measuring thoughtfulness against? Probably I'm measuring thoughtful |
| 1:52.2 | against what I think is thoughtful. Like, oh, you think you're smarter than, so I get it. |
| 1:56.7 | There's a risk in saying this, but I'm not the first person to observe this, and you're probably |
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