When Friends Leave the Faith: Episode 926
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
How to respond when your friends deconstruct, plus creative ways for men to build friendships, and keeping healthy boundaries with coworkers.
Featured musical artist: Nathan Tasker
Roundtable: Discouraged by Deconstruction
Your friend who once loved Jesus is struggling to keep the faith. He or she has written off parts of the Bible, or stopped going to church, or is excusing sin as not a big deal. All of us go through seasons of doubt, but how should you respond when you see someone drifting away from biblical truth and Christian community? Our guests have experienced this firsthand, and share how to love your friends and entrust them to God in the midst of their struggles.
Culture: Finding Great Friendships as a Man
How do men, especially single men, find meaningful friendships in church and beyond? Ty Dannenbring and Jeff Dillon learned how to cultivate community by sharing activities they love, being more visible in their spheres of influence, and reaching out to neighbors. Because guys do friendship differently than women, the practical ideas Ty and Jeff bring to the table are immensely helpful and attainable for men who crave meaningful connection. Ladies, we dished out friendship ideas for you last week!
Party in the Front!: Overcome Loneliness and Build Community Right Where You Are
Inbox: TMI on the Job
What’s appropriate to share at work, and what’s TMI (or worse)? HR expert Marshonda Dixon weighs in.
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| 0:00.0 | God is at work and he's calling his people to rise in truth. Truth Rising is a powerful new documentary from Focus on the Family and the Colson Center. See how ordinary Christians choose courage in a culture that needs truth. Watch Truth Rising today and find out how you can become an agent of restoration and hope. |
| 0:24.1 | Visit truthrising.com today. |
| 0:26.9 | That's truthrising.com. |
| 0:30.1 | Bowenless shows. |
| 0:45.3 | Thank you. Well, welcome, friends, to this week's episode of The Boundless Show. |
| 0:47.8 | This is Lisa Anderson here with you. |
| 0:52.3 | I always like giving a little preview of what is coming up. |
| 0:58.8 | I also will say, happy Reformation Day slash weekend to those of you who want to celebrate it. And quite frankly, we probably should. So there's a lot of import to that. |
| 1:07.5 | I'll also give a little shout out to our dear friend Bill Petro, who we've had on the show |
| 1:12.6 | talking about the history of Reformation Day and the Reformation itself. So you can check that out |
| 1:18.5 | on our site at boundless.org. Okay, later on in the show, we are going to talk about good |
| 1:24.6 | conversational boundaries to have with your coworkers, what is and is not |
| 1:30.2 | appropriate to share in the office or wherever it is you work. So an HR expert will be here |
| 1:36.3 | to address that. And then for our culture segment, Ty Dannembring and Jeff Dillon join to share about |
| 1:43.0 | how men can cultivate healthy community, |
| 1:46.8 | friendships, what does it look like, what does it look like to actually initiate in that area? |
| 1:51.4 | Sometimes it's hard, and it is definitely not necessarily done like the ladies do it. |
| 1:57.6 | So unique perspective right there. |
| 2:00.5 | Okay, here we are for our roundtable, though. |
| 2:02.6 | And another timely conversation is around the topic of what do you do when your friends are |
| 2:09.7 | leaving the faith or just disenfranchised with the faith, are discouraged, whatever, all the things, questioning a lot |
| 2:19.7 | of core things about Christianity and whatnot. So I have our friend Vince Hoppe and our own |
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