THINK YOU’RE BETTER THAN MOST? HAVE YOU CONSIDERED THIS STANDARD?

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

It’s Witness Wednesday!

Todd Friel is back at Kennesaw State University to speak with students and emphasizes the importance of approaching evangelism with love and understanding while pointing individuals toward the hope and joy found in Jesus Christ.

Segment 1:

• Cole, an agnostic with an interest in history, approaches Todd out of curiosity about Christianity.

• The conversation shifts from historical Christianity (like the Crusades) to the core problem of humanity—our standing before a holy God.

• Todd uses the Ten Commandments as a mirror, revealing that Cole isn’t just imperfect—he’s guilty before God.

Segment 2:

• Cole admits his shortcomings, but Todd emphasizes that comparing ourselves to “worse people” doesn’t make us good before God.

• The courtroom analogy drives home the seriousness of sin—one day, Cole will stand before God and answer for his life.

• Todd lays out the gospel as the only solution: Jesus bore the punishment Cole deserves, offering him a perfect record in return.

Segment 3:

• An agnostic admits she struggles to believe in things she can’t see, but Todd challenges her with logic—design points to a Designer.

• She’s been hurt by aggressive evangelism, leading her to reject Christianity.

• Todd gently shifts the focus back to Christ, urging her to judge Christianity by Jesus, not by the failures of His followers.

Segment 4:

• The student acknowledges she’s broken God’s laws, but struggles with the idea of judgment.

• Todd explains Easter: God’s justice demands punishment for sin, but His mercy sent Jesus to take that punishment.

• The student remains skeptical but admits Todd’s reasoning makes sense—Todd leaves her with a challenge to reconsider Jesus, apart from past hurts.

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0:00.0	Ritchin Radio begins in three, two, one.
0:09.1	What is the Bible?
0:10.2	Who wrote the Bible?
0:11.2	The church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from 2,000 years ago.
0:16.6	Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so, is where our trouble began.
0:21.6	This sounds to me like the voice of someone who really has an appalling ignorance of what the Bible says about itself and what Jesus said about it.
0:29.9	It's time for Wretched Radio with Todd Freel.
0:32.8	And we'll get to Mr. Mr. Freel. In just a quick second, welcome to Witness Wednesday on Wretched Radio.
0:41.9	I'm Jimmy Hicks in the studio.
0:43.2	Of course, Todd is out on campus today at Kennesaw State University.
0:47.7	And we're going to get to the witnessing quickly this week.
0:50.6	No time to waste.
0:52.6	Todd.
0:53.2	This is Cole.
0:56.2	And Cole, I'm really excited to talk to you,
1:02.1	and let me tell you why. You actually walked up to me and said, you're over there at that pro-life display, and you consider yourself sort of pro-life, but you're not a Christian. So I want you to be
1:06.2	as honest as you can with me. Why did you want to talk to me? Well, they were just mentioning you were a pretty big Christian apologist. I don't know what that means, but you just seemed interesting to talk to and you're the only one here in a suit.
1:20.6	Well, actually, no.
1:22.6	So I'm intriguing because of a coat. That's it. That's it. You've hurt my heart. No, but I'm not going to let you off the hook with that. You still want to talk about Christianity. Why? At least historically speaking, it's interesting to me, and I just wanted to hear a bit more the theology aspect of that. I mean, I've, admittedly, I've written on, for some English English classes defending actually probably one of the more
1:48.4	indefensible things in Christianity which is the Crusades.
1:52.0	You try to defend them?
1:53.5	Yeah.
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