Remembering Charlie. On September 10, 2025, an assassin’s bullet took the life of Charlie Kirk. Charlie was only 31 years old and left a wife and two beautiful children behind. Charlie cofounded Turning Point USA when he was only eighteen years old and turned into one of the most influential organizations in our lifetime.
Many are calling Charlie’s death a “political assassination”, but it is truly a case of Christian martyrdom. Charlie’s political views came entirely from his Christian convictions, not the other way around. Like Jesus Christ, he was killed for what he believed. Charlie believed and defended the life of the unborn, the sanctity of marriage between a man and woman, and that God created people male and female because the Bible is crystal clear on those issues. Charlie told his wife Erika that if he ever ran for political office, his number one objective was to save the family. Like I, Charlie saw the destruction of the family as the largest contributing factor to the destruction of our nation, second only to forgetting God.
Charlie Kirk was a missionary. His mission field- college campuses. He spent untold hours trying to reason with young college students whose minds were filled with Marxist, atheistic, and decadent ideologies they had gained from the professors who taught them godless propaganda instead of time-honored knowledge. He gave his opponents a microphone and he listened to their twisted arguments with patience and courtesy and then he spoke truth that literally not one of them could refute. Why would he place himself day after day in the midst of mocking college students, many of which hated him? Simple, he truly loved them. Charlie was a purveyor of truthgospel truth. His wisdom was much like that of Stephen, the martyr in Acts chapter six and seven who gave his life for the Truth.
Was Charlie’s death in vain? Absolutely not! I firmly believe, like other martyrs, he will accomplish more for God’s kingdom in his death than he did in his life. Saint Augustine said, “The earth has been filled with the blood of the martyrs as with seed, and from that seed have sprung the crops of the church. They have asserted Christ’s cause more effectively when dead than when they were alive.” Psalm 116:15 declares, “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.” The word precious in Hebrew means “extremely valuable”. Charlie’s death is already affecting souls worldwide as people gather by the tens of thousands to remember what he stood for. A wise man once asked: “Are you willing to die for what you stand for?” Charlie was. Are we?
Mere days after his death, his wife Erika addressed the world with a message of incredible hope, strength and love. She vowed that Charlie’s work was not over but only beginning. His message to lost college students would only get greater. Through tears she said, “Charlie loved his Savior with all of his heart, and he wanted every one of you to know him, too. He wanted everyone to know that if you confess, if you confess the Lord Jesus Christ who rose from the dead, then you will be saved. The microphone that fell from his hand that day will not lay silently on the grass in Utah- I for one will pick it up. Christian, will you?
