WHY THE GOSPEL MUST BE OUR HILL TO DIE ON

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Segment 1

• The Fortis Institute must focus on the Gospel above all else—it's the foundation of everything we do.

• Why did Jesus die? Jonathan Pokluda explains the Gospel's judicial nature—it's not just a story, but a legal matter.

• The death of Christ is about more than sacrifice; it's about satisfying God's justice.

Segment 2

• The Local Church is essential—every Christian has a role to play in serving others.

• Church isn’t about what you take, but how you give and serve the body of believers.

• Kevin DeYoung emphasizes that works follow faith, but don’t contribute to salvation.

Segment 3

• A Ventura City Council meeting was disrupted when a woman praying was heckled.

• The mayor and council members' response shows a growing hostility toward public displays of faith.

• Christian leaders must be bold in calling out these attacks on religious freedom.

Segment 4

• Evangelical-Catholic unity continues to raise concerns—many worry it's leading to compromise on key issues.

• Texas' school choice plan has sparked debates on the use of tax dollars for public education.

• The autism debate is heating up again, with RFK reigniting questions about its rise and potential causes.

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0:00.0	Ritchard 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
0:26.3	Bible says about itself and what Jesus said about it.
0:29.9	It's time for Wretched Radio with Todd Friel.
0:33.0	There are worse ways for ministries to crash. This is Rretched Radio. I've got to be so careful these
0:41.6	days in the evangelical swimming pool. The stroke that you choose could get you to the wall or
0:49.3	cause you to sink. Wow, am I sorry I chose this illustration, but the point is, an evangelical Christianity,
0:55.9	we have to be so thoughtful these days because there are so many issues that either cause people
1:02.1	to cheer or others to jeer, and it is delicate out there. And so it is, as we consider,
1:14.7	what hill would we be willing to die on here at Fortis Institute? In other words, a subject that kind of becomes our bailiwick. That's the thing that
1:20.7	we talk about and we are insistent about, maybe even to the point of repetitious agitation.
1:26.5	If this issue causes this ministry to crash,
1:31.3	I'll go down happily. Why? Because the issue is the gospel. You say, okay, another diatribe about the gospel. The gospel, we got to live the gospel center center. No, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about articulating the gospel.
1:48.1	That we've got to get this right. Listen carefully to how people present the gospel and you are likely going to go. If you are being discerning in that, you're considering what elements need to be included for the gospel
2:01.7	to actually make sense, you will be shocked at the number of individuals who just totally biffed.
2:08.6	No, you could question them on it. Well, hey, what about the wrath of God? Well, yeah, yeah,
2:13.0	we got that too. But what about eternal conscious torment? Well, you know, we don't like to, yeah,
2:20.1	yeah, that's there, but we don't like, they don't share the details. And I think that that is the
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