Tony Evans, of course, the founder of

Oakcliffe Bible Fellowship in Texas. We

know that Tony Evans had stepped down

from his position back in June of 2024

after he revealed an undisclosed sin

from his past which he said was not

criminal but lacked righteous judgment.

And because of that, he was going to

hold himself accountable, step away for

a period of time, submit to a

restoration plan from his church elders.

We did not know at that time if and when

Tony Evans would even be back,

but we got our answer.

And that answer came in October of 2025

after Evans had been away from his

church for more than a year. Although

not completely done from preaching

because Evans had preached uh at two

other locations in the summer of 2025

uh before coming back to Oakliff Bible

Fellowship.

But the announcement that was given by

church elders, and I talked about this

at the time because I just thought this

was how they strung along the

congregation.

For anybody that listened to that

sermon, I think it was back on October

5th of 2025. If you listen to that

sermon, and they had it up on their

YouTube channel, you had one of the

church’s elders up there talking about

how excited they were because Tony Evans

had completed his restoration process.

They were happy to announce he submitted

to everything that the elders had told

him to do. He got counseling. He took a

year off from preaching. All of this was

building up in anticipation as the

congregation was expecting that with

that announcement, with saying that Tony

Evans has completed his restoration

process, they were ready for him to say

that and he’s now coming back to the

pulpit. Except that’s not what happened.

I mean, you could almost hear a gasp

coming

from the congregation after this point

when they make this announcement. He’s

re, you know, we happy announced he is

now restored back to ministry as

everybody’s cheering like crazy. And

then they say, but will not be returning

to the lead preaching role or any other

capacity

at Oakcliffe Bible Fellowship. That that

is just like I don’t know uh promising

some I don’t know. I’m just using this

as an example for off the top of my

head. promising somebody, you know,

you’re hungry, you’ve been craving this

for a while, man. You haven’t had pizza

in like a year, and you know, you you’re

you know, you could smell the pizza,

right? It’s it’s in the air. You you’re

like, “Oh, man. I’m going to dig into

some pizza after a year.” And and then

right as you think you’re about to get

served up that pizza, they’re like,

“Psych.”

It’s just that’s how it felt to me.

That’s how it felt.

So from there, they said they they know

they’re wishing Tony Evans all the best.

They know that God’s still got something

for him. Okay. And interestingly enough,

too, this was part of their restoration

Sunday. Just nice little tie in there,

right? Then in December,

two months later, 2025,

the church goes ahead and announces that

Tony Evans son, Jonathan,

will be officially taking over. and was

named installed as the new lead pastor

of Oakliff Bible Fellowship. So handing

the reigns on down to the sun. We talk

about this a lot in these mega churches

how you know usually when things like

this happen you see the sun is the one

who who takes over whether you think

they should be or not. That’s often what

happens.

So all of that now leading up to this,

what is Tony Evans doing next? He has

given an interview where he has

announced exactly what that is, but also

he has addressed

the speculation

surrounding his undisclosed sin and

talked as well about his restoration

process. So, we’re going to cover all of

that here uh in just a second. And I

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it. Tony Evans, this is a story that I

covered back in June of 2024 when it

happened. It really shocked a lot of

people who looked up to Tony Evans. you

know, basically, you know, you didn’t

really hear too much negative about this

guy. You know, there really wasn’t many

rumors that were floating around about

him involved in any sort of, you know,

inappropriate things. Just overall, a

lot of people respected him as a as a

pastor, as a Bible teacher. Of course,

he’s got his radio program and all of

that. Many other ventures, of course,

outside of just pastoring at Oakcliffe

Bible Fellowship. But then everything

sort of came to a halt with the

undisclosed sin. And people have been

talking about this now for well over a

year. Again, a year and a half. And I,

to be honest, thought that at some point

before the end of 2024,

it it would have come out, right? What

did we know about it? That he said that

it wasn’t criminal and that it lacked

righteous judgment. We don’t know how

far in the past that it went, but it

happened. And for whatever reason, and

why that was the time to bring it up,

Tony Evans made the decision to take

that year away from the pulpit. And I

say year, he didn’t come back to Oakliff

until October of 2025. But, uh, he

preached at an event in July of 2025 and

then I think another one in September, a

couple of months later. I think it was a

church in Chicago. So, he was, you know,

he was around, just not his own church.

And I said at the time, kind of strange

how his first appearance back preaching

again or speaking wasn’t even at his own

church. And I think there might be

something to that, but I’ll explore that

here in a little bit.

Before I get to Evans addressing the

speculation on his undisclosed sin,

you’re going to want to stick around for

this. I want to talk about his new

venture because I was curious what he

would do next. I mean, we knew he was

going to do something, right? So, in

this interview that he gave with church

leaders and the interview’s out there,

you can listen to it. You can watch it

in full if you would like to. He talked

about what’s next for Tony Evans. And

when I heard this announcement, I said

he’s taken a page out of the TD Jake

playbook because Tony Evans has

announced that he will be hosting a

brand new podcast, right? These uh

preachers turn podcasters. We’re seeing

a lot more of this now. TD Jake just

announced this a couple of months ago,

his brand new podcast, because he’s not

preaching over at the Potter’s House in

Dallas anymore. We know that TD Jake had

given the church reigns over to his

daughter and his son-in-law. So now, you

know, of course, there’s a lot of

shenanigans involving Jake that I’ve

talked about. So, he’s hosting his own

podcast. Now you got Tony Evans

announcing his own podcast which is

going to be called Unbound. That’s what

it’s going to be called.

Uh the Unbound podcast. So

this is going to be kind of very similar

uh in all honesty to the TD Jake

podcast. uh Unbound. It’s going to be a

a faith and cultural type of a podcast

where he’s going to apply scripture to

everyday life and interview people, you

know, various pastors,

Christian artists, influencers. Some of

the guests that have already been lined

up for this include,

and I’m not particularly a fan of some

of these people, Kirk Franklin, Larae,

and Matt Chandler, Pastor Matt Chandler,

also there in Texas, and well, he’s had

his own issues in recent years as well,

which I’ve talked about as has his

church. But uh these are just some of

the individuals again that will be on

Unbound with Tony Evans and the podcast

is set to debut on January 20th. So, I

don’t know what this is with these

pastors now turning to the podcast, you

know, and it’s so interesting that you

have two in both TD Jake and Tony Evans

who both had to and I guess with Tony

Evans, I mean, it he stepped down for a

period, but you know, they didn’t really

call it a resignation. TD Jake resigned

and he said it was for health reasons,

but of course all the other shenanigans

and the the lawsuits involving TD Jake

and other men who alleged that he s

mistreated them and now they’re both

doing podcast. It’s just it’s just very

strange to me that two of the biggest

churches, two of the biggest mega

churches in all of Texas and you know

bigger names, right? TD Jake, Tony Evans

now both doing their own podcast uh

while they have their family members

running their church. I I just think the

similarities are quite interesting.

So what about the speculation on his

undisclosed sin? He was asked the

question and they talked about how

again, you know, you said this was, you

know, you didn’t announce it and all

that, but there was a lot of speculation

on social media as to what it might be.

Now, I have maintained because there the

the Tony Evans supporters, I mean, they

beat me up anytime I talk about this

guy. I’m sure they’re going to do the

same thing in the comment section here.

They’re going to make fun of me for

being blind. Uh, that’s Christian. I’ll

tell you what, uh, the so-called

Christians who, you know, love these

pastors, anytime that I bring criticism

against their favorite pastor, while

they are very quick to go to personal

insult, one of their favorite things

they they love to do this is to make fun

of my vision. The fact that I can’t see

and they’ll say things like, “Oh, not

only are you blind physically, but

you’re blind spiritually, too. Ha,

you’re blind. Look at your silly

glasses.” Haha. Right? These are these

are believers, okay? These are these are

Christians, so they say. So, I no doubt

they’re going to do it again here in the

comments, but that’s okay. They worship

man more than they do God. And and they

out themselves and you know, every time

they do something like that. Uh, no

problem with having a respect for a

pastor, but when you worship one and you

refuse to believe that they are in any

way capable of doing something sinful,

uh, well, in this case here with Tony

Evans, he admits it, although won’t be

transparent about it and you’re just

you’re you’re fooling yourself. Anyway,

I just had to say that. But

Evans talked about how he saw a lot of

what was going on on social media and

what was being said. He said that so

much of it was nothing more than people

telling lies, people who were uninformed

and people who quite frankly were saying

a lot of damaging things. So, he wasn’t

happy about it. But look, I got the

answer for Tony Evans. If you were not

happy about the speculation, which is

still happening now, a year and a half

later, all you had to do from the very

beginning was be transparent about what

you had done. But because you did not do

that, because you chose to keep it

silent and not be transparent with

people, of course, people are going to

speculate on what it might be. So you

can’t really blame people, especially

for the people who really respected you

from trying to, you know, figure out

what it might be. And let me just say

this, too, because so much was

emphasized on the fact that whatever

this sin was, it wasn’t criminal. Just

because something wasn’t criminal does

not mean that it is not worthy of being

mentioned what it is. Because if it was

something really terrible despite it not

being criminal, at least that’s what

they’re saying. That could give people a

whole different perception of Tony

Evans. It would give people the ability

to discern the situation for themselves,

pray about it, and find out, is this

church the one that I should really be

at at Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship? Right?

Is it where I should be? I mean, if it

was an Again, speculation, right?

They’re going to say you’re gossiping.

Don’t do that. But if it was an

infidelity, is it criminal? Well, I

mean, you’re not going to be prosecuted

for it, but

in the eyes of God, it’s a completely

disqualifying act for a ministry, right?

What about something financial? You

know, financial mismanagement.

Well, I mean, I could, you know, it

could be criminal depending on what it

might be.

But something else that I caught while

he was doing this interview is he was

talking I’m going to I’m sort of

skipping around here a little bit but

and he did not reveal the the

undisclosed sin and I and I don’t know

if he ever will. My, you know, my

opinion, and I know, right, far be it

for me to have an opinion on something

on my own platform, but

my opinion here is that if in fact it

had something to do, if with an

infidelity or something along those

lines, if the other person involved or

other persons involved

had gone to Tony Evans and wanted it

revealed or wanted him out of the

ministry, for all we know, there could

be some sort of an NDA that’s attached

here that is preventing this individual

or individuals from speaking out. Maybe

in exchange for the fact that Evans does

not reveal what it was, but he gets out

of the church. I thought it was very

telling how the elders at Oakcliffe said

that he was restored back to ministry

but would not be returning to the church

to preach. Well, why not, right? Wh why

not come back and preach? If you’re

cleared, what’s the big deal? He was

okay to preach in two other locations

over the summer and into the fall, but

why not in his own church?

Just I I don’t know. Now, he did preach

the sermon that, you know, the

installation service for his son

Jonathan taking over in December, but it

just something just didn’t sit right

with me about this whole situation about

not being transparent. And I know people

are going to applaud him. Oh, look, he

did what so many others don’t do. Okay,

he did he did a good thing, right? Sure.

He but but the means in which it came

about

and the fact that now as he was

discussing further about what the

restoration process was like for him and

he talked about how it’s important that

you are restored amongst spiritual

people because they were asking Tony

Evans what is your advice for other

leaders that may eventually end up in a

situation like yourself for example. And

as I was going through this and Evans is

talking about the importance of when you

are restoring, you know, trying to be

restored that you do it in the midst of

spiritual people,

not just anybody,

not social media, but people who are

actually spiritual. Now, you know,

define spiritual, right? Spiritual, that

word gets tossed around a lot.

Are we to assume that the elders of his

church are spiritual because they wore a

title? Oh, so because they’re elders and

they wore a title in the church, well,

we can trust that they were the right

people to handle the restoration

process. No questions asked. You even

think about asking a question, well,

you’re just wrong, right?

Not just anybody. And you could tell who

he was aiming that at, right? People who

were speculating about what his sin

might be. I’m sure it wasn’t very

pleasant for him to read what he was

reading on social media about what the

sin might be. But again, he brought it

on himself. He brought it on himself. He

could have came out and said it from the

beginning, but he chose not to. And

look, there’s a reason for that. Also,

he could have disclosed the sin when it

first happened, whenever that was, but

he did not do that. which also makes you

question why.

Was it a sin that was going on for a

period of time? Was it a one-time thing?

We don’t know.

We’re just basically told that it’s not

our business. Keep our mouth shut. Trust

Tony Evans. He’s a pastor. You’re not.

Right.

So then as he’s continuing to go on here

and talking about how it’s all about the

Lord, it’s not about any one man. Well,

yeah. You wish him other people would

actually take that. that I agree with

him on. But he said that as far as his

son Jonathan, there were already talks

Tony said about the eventual transition

leading to Jonathan Evans taking over.

But what he said was that this

disturbance that came up helped to just

accelerate that process. So now, and I

caught that. I was like, “Wait, wait.

What’ you call that? So, the undisclosed

sin from Tony’s past that was not

criminal but lacked righteous judgment

and that caused him to be away from his

church for a year, go through a

restoration, counseling, time of healing

process was a disturbance.

When you hear that word, a disturbance

is what? Like I I look at it like to be

you know you were bothered with

something right? Oh you you this

disturbance came up. Something came in

and interrupted

the process. A disturb disturbance could

be anything right? It could be noise

right it could be an interrupt it it

could be anything. But that word just

the way that he chose that word I

thought was very telling.

the the plan was to eventually always

transition things over to Jonathan to

lead the church.

But this disturbance

accelerated that process and it

presented itself with an opportunity

for us to move in that direction maybe a

little bit quicker than we would have

previously thought.

It was all framed to be a good thing.

It was all framed in a way that just

always just God had his hand on it the

whole time. The disturbance came up. It

was what it was.

It just allowed us to get Jonathan into

the role even a little bit quicker than

we had previously thought.

A disturbance.

The undisclosed sin is a disturbance.

Hm.

And I could tell you

and there’ll be some that of course that

are going to worship Tony Evans.

There will always be speculation about

what this sin is. It it just will.

He’s being protected there. People are

covering for him. And I know that even

when the elders had initially announced

his restoration, they talked about how

we’re we’re not trying to be you know,

you know, lack transparency with you.

No, no. It’s just, you know, we’re we’re

doing things biblical and they can sound

real good. They can make it sound real

nice.

So

now he looks ahead and and and going

into his podcast, right? Unbound.

We’re going to apply scripture everyday

life, faith and culture, you know,

cultural, you know, type of

conversations with Kirk Franklin and

LRae and Matt Chandler and all these

other people that are going to be going

on there with Evans. Wouldn’t even be

surprised if TD Jake pops up on there or

Tony Evans pops up on his podcast.

There has to be accountability. Yes,

absolutely.

He went away for a time. Yes. But why?

People have a right to know that if it

was something really, really bad, again,

even if it wasn’t criminal,

his reputation is still on the line.

They don’t want that to come out because

they know that if it does, it’ll change

the minds of many people when it comes

to Tony Evans. He is still very much

involved. He’s got his hands in many

different things. He may not be leading

the church from the pulpit anymore, but

he still is involved in a lot. The Urban

Alternative, right, his radio program,

we talked about it. He does not want to

lose those supporters

and he don’t like the speculation. Like

I said, people going out. He says, “Oh,

a lot of lies were told. People are

misinformed.

A lot of it was quite frankly damaging.”

But again, the only one who caused all

of it was you. If you would have been

honest from the beginning,

be no need for speculation. You could

have been honest about the sin, still

taken the year away,

and maybe people would have had a little

bit more respect for you.

But that’s not the way they chose to go.

What do you guys think? Tony Evans new

venture going into the podcasting world.

What do you think about his comments on

the speculation

of his undisclosed sin and then calling

it a disturbance that they just used to

accelerate the process and that God had

a hand on and it all came out to be

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