WHY CHARLIE KIRK WOULD WANT YOU TO RESPOND WITH GRACE, NOT HATE

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Segment 1:

• Assassination of Charlie Kirk leaves us with hard questions: why and what now?

• Exposes national fracture: free speech attacked, norms collapsing.

• Beyond politics: a brother in Christ murdered, a soul lost reminds us of eternal stakes.

Segment 2:

• Response must be more than outrage—it must drive evangelism.

• Politics shift when hearts are changed by Christ.

• Five ways to engage: pray, organize, support, hold the rope, or go yourself.

Segment 3:

• Kids on campuses are detached from reality—spiritual soil is ready.

• Pastors should address tragedies like this from the pulpit.

• Reminder: persecution shouldn’t surprise us—Jesus warned it would come.

Segment 4:

• Hope in grief: Charlie is with Christ—happier than we can imagine.

• Darkness is real, but the Gospel is the only cure.

• Students: courageously hold to truth in classrooms and on campuses.

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0:00.0	Ritchard Radio begins in three, two, one.
0:09.1	What is the Bible? 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 Ritchard Radio with Tote Freel.
0:33.2	If you are upset by the assassination of Charlie Kirk and frankly who of us isn't, there
0:40.5	are two questions that I believe must be asked and answered.
0:47.6	This is Rretched Radio.
0:51.0	Question number one, why?
0:53.7	Question number two, what? Question one, why has this event grabbed all of us by the throats and caused such an outpouring of grief? I've seen it on social media, the YouTube videos, people in the streets, they're crying and they're mourning. I saw it
1:12.5	Sunday morning at Alfreda Bible Church. During Bible study, we talked about the assassination of
1:19.0	Charlie Kirk. It takes a lot to displace Bible study time at our church. But we spoke about it
1:27.1	because it was so heavy on the hearts of
1:29.4	so many people. And the question is, why? And how we answer that question, it'll determine your
1:39.4	answer to the second question. What are we going to do about this? I suppose, if anything, I guess that's one of the options. For Christians, I don't think passivity is ever the right response. How we respond to why I'm so consternated about this will determine what we do in response to it.
2:01.6	These are important questions.
2:03.1	So let's dive into them.
2:05.2	And I believe that when we are done, I firmly believe this,
2:08.1	there'll be something that you can actually do.
2:12.3	Beyond being hurt, beyond being afraid,
2:16.5	beyond complaining, beyond passing memes that talk about how horrible
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