WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ‘KIND OF ATHEIST’ IS CONFRONTED WITH THE CROSS?

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

It’s Witness Wednesday!

Does being raised in a “religious” home guarantee that a child will continue in the faith once they go to college? The conversations you hear in this episode might shock you. Todd is back at Georgia Tech where he will encounter the unfortunate toll post-modernism has had on the minds of young adults. Todd also shares a strategy that proves helpful in evangelistic conversations.

Segment 1:

• The first student Todd talks with was raised around church but has drifted from Christianity due to friends, science, and disinterest.

• He claims to be a “good person”; Todd uses the 10 Commandments to show the student’s guilt before God.

• He hears the full gospel—Jesus paying his fine so he can be forgiven— and is challenged to decide if it’s true.

Segment 2:

• The next student Todd talks to identifies as Baptist but admits he doesn’t know if he’s going to heaven.

• Todd explains that being religious isn’t the same as being born again.

• The student is urged to repent, trust in Christ fully, and make his salvation certain by being pointed to Romans to see the truth.

Segment 3:

• Todd talks with a student that believes in a vague “parent-like” God who disciplines but doesn’t condemn.

• Todd uses the 10 Commandments to show guilt before a just Judge who must punish sin.

• The student hears the gospel—Jesus taking his punishment—and is challenged to determine if it’s true.

Segment 4:

• Kevin embraces postmodern thinking: Catholicism works for him, but “all truths” are valid.

• Another student calls himself Christian but doubts Jesus is the only way; breaks all 10 Commandments.

• Both students are urged to see Jesus as the only truth, repent, and trust Him alone for salvation.

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0:00.0	Ritchin Radio begins in three, two, one.
0:08.6	If there's one common thread, it might be that men perceive church is too feminine.
0:13.0	We have to be aggressive in the world when it's appropriate.
0:16.0	We are warriors.
0:16.9	One, two, three, warriors!
0:18.7	You are a real man when you commit to study God's word, and you commit to being conformed
0:23.7	and transformed into the image of Jesus Christ.
0:27.0	That's the biblical perspective on being a man.
0:30.6	It's time for Wretched Radio with Todd Freel.
0:34.2	Well, it is Witness Wednesday at Georgia Tech.
0:37.1	Okay, I'm going to ask this kid something.
0:39.0	We'll see if I'm just dopey. Young man, I got a question for you on the radio. All right. Where are you from?
0:44.3	Uh, Drew Tech? Yeah, I know. Oh, Marietta. Okay, your nationality. You look like you're Chinese, Korean. Okay, so you're Taiwanese. Now, there are about four or five guys who looked like they were from the east,
0:55.2	and you're all smoking cigarettes.
0:58.0	And I couldn't help but observe, the only one smoking cigarettes seem to be people
1:02.0	who are somewhere from the Far East.
1:04.9	Yeah.
1:05.7	Is smoking, is my observation just kind of off the chart?
1:10.2	No, no.
1:10.6	I mean, I'm sure there's,
1:11.7	there's an observation made all around the world that says that,
1:15.6	Middle Eastern people are more, tend to more smoke more than Western people.
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