Why The Church Is Losing It’s Hold On This ONE Generation
Wretched Radio with Todd Friel
Fortis Institute
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Richard Radio begins in three, two, one. |
| 0:06.9 | Welcome to virtual reality church. |
| 0:09.4 | Welcome to our virtual church. |
| 0:11.2 | Zoom church is not church. |
| 0:13.2 | Is there some type of way for a virtual congregation? |
| 0:16.7 | You're not a congregation if you don't congregate. |
| 0:18.7 | We have just finished our virtual church. |
| 0:21.1 | You can worship in the comfort of your own home and at your convenience. |
| 0:25.4 | When you combine this access with the loss of the local, I become my own confession, and I go around the World Wide Web listening for echoes that say back to me what I've already decided to believe. |
| 0:40.6 | It's time for Wretched Radio with Tom Freel. |
| 0:43.9 | And you thought Gen Z's were the problem? |
| 0:46.9 | This is Wretched Radio. |
| 0:49.7 | Shocker. |
| 0:50.9 | Guess which demographic is leaving the church in the greatest numbers? You're thinking, well, |
| 0:57.5 | that's got to be Gen Z because those kids, they just aren't following in the footsteps of their |
| 1:02.7 | parents. They're rejecting everything. They're deconstructing everything, including Christianity. |
| 1:09.3 | And whilst I think they're still busy doing that, I think there has been a shift. |
| 1:15.1 | And if polls mean anything, I think that that statement is actually statistically supported. |
| 1:21.3 | There seems to be a new interest in spiritual things on behalf of Gen Ziers, particularly among young men. |
| 1:32.7 | That is really good news. |
| 1:34.9 | That's really exciting news. |
| 1:37.0 | But guess which demographic is now starting to get drained from the church? |
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