The church is trending. Not for miracles. Not for lives being changed. For scandals, cover-ups, and corruption. And the question no one is asking is — why does this keep happening?

In this episode I'm not pointing fingers at specific people or piling on. I'm asking a harder question: what did we quietly discard that was supposed to protect us from this?

The answer is two things. Discernment and integrity. And I think losing both of them is connected to something most of us didn't even notice happening.

This episode is for pastors, ministry leaders, church staff, and anyone who loves the church enough to ask the hard questions.

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📌 TIMESTAMPS

0:00 — Church, What Is Going On? (Cold Open)

1:16 — Welcome to Beyond the Numbers

2:00 — How Did We Get Here?

3:09 — Is This a New Problem or an Old One Finally Exposed?

4:10 — The Two Things We Quietly Discarded

5:00 — The Entertainment Drift (And How I Fell Into It)

7:34 — Discernment: What We Lost

8:00 — What Scripture Says About Discernment

9:57 — The Gatekeepers Who Left the Gate Open

11:00 — The Copy-Paste Student (And What It Taught Me About the Word)

12:27 — Integrity: Who You Are at Midnight

13:10 — The Cover-Up Culture

14:29 — Is There Anything You're Hoping Doesn't Get Found Out?

15:00 — Three Ways to Rebuild Integrity

18:00 — For the Ones Who Were Hurt By a Leader

20:00 — The Church Is in a Moment — Here's What I Think Is Happening

21:30 — Two Questions to Write Down This Week

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