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Should Pastors Address the Assassination of Charlie Kirk?

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The Charlie Kirk assassination has shaken the world. There have been vigils in countries like Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Poland, and Australia. Additional ones are planned for the US. Are there any lessons? How should the church respond? Is what happened to Charlie Kirk a teaching moment? I saw this:

Pastor qoutation

The following quotation is from the Preface to my book God and Government. It’s attributed to Martin Luther:

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If Luther didn’t say it, he certainly practiced it, as did many Christians over the centuries. Consider the number of Election Sermons that have been preached in our nation’s history. See the three-volume work of Theodore Parker, Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons (1867). The following is from Harry S. Stout.

Throughout the colonial era, American ministers delivered approximately 8 million sermons, each lasting one to one-and-a-half hours. The average 70-year old colonial churchgoer would have listened to some 7,000 sermons in his or her lifetime, totaling nearly 10,000 hours of concentrated listening. This is the number of classroom hours it would take to receive ten separate undergraduate degrees in a modern university, without ever repeating the same course!… The colonial sermon was prophet, newspaper, video, Internet, community college, and social therapist all wrapped in one. Such was the range of its influence on all aspects of life that even contemporary television and personal computers pale in comparison.[1]

In his book The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England (1986), Stout wrote, “Unlike modern mass media, the sermon stood alone in local New England contexts as the only regular (at least weekly) medium of public communication. As a channel of information, it combined religious, educational, and journalistic functions, and supplied all the key terms necessary to understand existence in this world and the next.” (page 3)

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These colonial pastors were aware of the politics of their day, both in America and in their country of origin. Many of them made the trek to the New World because politics was affecting their ability to preach on the Lord’s Day.

Considerable literature was put out and numerous sermons were preached in London, in the interest of the colony in Virginia, and much of this, at least—practically all, in fact that we have been able to examine—was provided by men, who used the Geneva Bible, presumably Puritans. … Several sermons were preached before the Virginia Company in London, for which service they chose freely, if not uniformly, Puritans.[2]

In his book When a Nation Forgets God, Erwin Lutzer retells a Christian’s story of living during the Nazi Holocaust:

I lived in Germany during the Nazi Holocaust. I considered myself a Christian. We heard stories of what was happening to the Jews, but we tried to distance ourselves from it, because what could anyone do to stop it?

A railroad track ran behind our small church, and each Sunday morning we could hear the whistle in the distance and then the wheels coming over the tracks. We became disturbed when we heard the cries coming from the train as it passed by. We realized that it was carrying Jews like cattle in the cars!

Week after week the whistle would blow. We dreaded to hear the sound of those wheels because we knew that we would hear the cries of the Jews en route to a death camp. Their screams tormented us.

We knew the time the train was coming, and when we heard the whistle blow we began singing hymns. By the time the train came past our church, we were singing at the top of our voices. If we heard the screams, we sang more loudly and soon we heard them no more.

Years have passed, and no one talks about it anymore. But I still hear that train whistle in my sleep. God forgive me; forgive all of us who called ourselves Christians yet did nothing to intervene.[3]

Many Reformed pastors preach verse by verse through books of the Bible and claim that this is the biblical view. I have not seen any biblical evidence for this claim. Are we to believe that speaking to the issues of the day is somehow not “preaching Christ and Him crucified”? It seems to me that every verse and every circumstance is an opportunity to preach Jesus and Him crucified!

Does the “regulative principle of worship” prohibit preaching on what is taking place culturally? I saw this in response to a post.

As much as I would find it appropriate to mention brother Charlie, a topical message, or the death cult of critical theory, the Lord’s Day gathering belongs to the Lord. The focus should remain on Him and His worthiness. We have 6 other days per week to focus on our works (political or other)—but this one belongs to God.

I don’t see how addressing the issues of the day based on the Bible somehow detracts from God and His worthiness. The prophets spoke about the moral problems of their day. For example, consider the following from Isaiah 1. Must a pastor wait until he begins preaching through Isaiah to preach on these verses when these same sins are taking place today?

How the faithful city has become a prostitute,

She who was full of justice!

Righteousness once dwelt in her,

But now murderers.

Your silver has become dross,

Your drink diluted with water.

Your rulers are rebels

And companions of thieves;

Everyone loves a bribe

And chases after gifts.

They do not obtain justice for the orphan,

Nor does the widow’s case come before them (vv. 21-23).

A woman confronted Charlie Kirk about abortion. She claimed to be a Christian and based her pro-abortion position on Exodus 21:22-25. I wonder how many Christians could have dealt with her arguments. If not, why not? Has your pastor preached on the abortion topic, or has he left it for the Sunday School hour, something of which is not found in the Bible?

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Isn’t God the Lord of all of life? Did not Abraham Kuyper say, “There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, ‘Mine!’”?[4] Must we wait until we encounter relevant verses in the flow of expository preaching to deal with issues that impact our families, schools, churches, and nation at this moment in time?

Yes, preach through the Bible, but don’t let that method (which the Bible never requires) stop a pastor from addressing topics that need to be addressed. Paul’s letters to the churches serve as good examples. He was not teaching through books of the Bible. He was addressing the issues of the day. Where in the Bible does it say pastors can’t do this from the pulpit on the Lord’s Day if the Bible is being exegeted and applied?


[1] Harry S. Stout, “How Preachers Incited Revolution,” Christian History, Issue 50 (Spring 1996), 3.

[2] P. Marion Simms, The Bible in America: Versions that Have Played Their Part in the Making of the Republic (New York: Wilson-Erickson, 1936), 75-76.

[3] (Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2010), 25-26.

[4] Abraham Kuyper, “Sphere Sovereignty,” in James D. Bratt, ed., Abraham Kuyper: A Centennial Reader (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998), 488.

American Vision’s mission is to Restore America to its Biblical Foundation—from Genesis to Revelation. American Vision (AV) has been at the heart of worldview study since 1978, providing resources to exhort Christian families and individuals to live by a Biblically based worldview. Visit www.AmericanVision.org for more information, content and resources


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  • US Marine Fighting Tyranny

    Here, let me give you the short version:

    Kirk was nothing but a zionist script reading sock-puppet that started to wander “off reservation” (Talking about how JEEEWWSS have been subverting this country, BY NAME!),… which in the eyes of his JEEEEWWW handlers,… is a mortal sin punishable by death,… just like so many political leaders put in office by JEEEEWWW money and subversive operators,… when these nothings-become-celebrities start thinking/acting on their own accords,… WHAMO,… they are quickly taken out.

    Timeline so far:
    *******************

    Wednesday – SEPTEMBER 10, 2025 – Utah Valley University in Orem Utah, USA.

    ~ 08:29 Mountain Daylight Time (MDT): Supposed Shooter (Tyler Robinson) arrives driving a gray Dodge Challenger.

    ~11:30: Multiple students at the target university make strange tiktok/twitter posts about something bad happening to Charlie Kirk,

    ~ 11:52: Shooter manages to set up on a roof unnoticed,

    ~ 12:09: Kirk appears before a crowd of approx. 3,000,

    ~ 12:23 Shooter waits for Charlie to talk about gun violence before taking a single accurate shot at his brain stem, a tactic exclusively used by anti-terrorist police and military (people seen cheering in the crowd when he dies),

    ~ 12:26: Shooter quickly exits while jewish man George Zinni with a pellet gun makes a fuss in the crowd, drawing police attention, aligning with the mossad tactic of sayanim (civilian assistants),

    ~ 12:39: FBI agents arrive and secure…

    • US Marine Fighting Tyranny

      ~ 12:39: FBI agents arrive and secure the scene.

      ~ 13:02 Trump shares news of Kirk’s shooting.

      - Time (Awaiting ATC Confirmation): Private jet takes off from Provost airport after ~an hour. Private jet goes off radar illegally,

      -Time (Awaiting ATC Confirmation): Private jet comes back onto radar travelling back towards the Provost airport it came from (Reported By: US News),

      - Private jet is owned by an orthodox jewish rabbi,

      ~ 14:20: Netanyahu announces Charlie Kirks death before any other official has.

      ~ 14:40: Trump announces Charlie Kirk’s death.

      ~ 17:21: On “X” – Netanyahu follows up with another post on Charlie Kirk’s death before any news media outlet – “Charlie Kirk was murdered for speaking the truth and defending freedom…” (Yes, that is correct What-A-Yahoo,… you had him murdered for just that!)

      ~ Thursday – Sept. 11 @ ~ 07:19: FBI Agent Robert Bohls announces that they have recovered a weapon (High Powered Bolt Action Rifle) from a nearby wooded area.

      ADDITIONAL NOTE: UNCONFIRMED REPORT – If you have confirmation of this, please leave note and link:

      “One day before the Charlie Kirk murder, both the New York Times and the LA Times reported that Charlie Kirk had been assassinated. Plus, on that same day, Amazon Books posted “The Shooting Of Charlie Kirk”, then removed it.

      JD – US Marine: Yeah,.. Just Another Mossad Assassination People,… Nothing To See Here,… Move Along,…. Move Along….

      PS: What happened to the ”Epstein List”,… or Israel’s GENOCIDE of Palestinians??? Oh yeah,…. that is ancient history now that the latest news cycle is out.

  • kilroy

    Should useful idiots be allowed to lead the public online? STFU with your Langley inspired bullshit! . Their plan is simple sheep. They want the right to go after the left like during the George Floyd psyop that drew in all of the useful idiots on the left that wanted to be part of a riot and sprinkle in a little looting. Remember the police protection they all received when they were burning and looting? They want chaos. Order out of Chaos is how they run these operations. Becasue there is something they want you to beg for that gives them even more control over you. Look at the laws they are trying to pass as you are not paying any attention. So called hate speech about Israel will be illegal. Huh! In other words, telling the truth about this openly criminal regime will be your pass port taken from you making you a prisoner in your own country. Possibly even getting you thrown in jail if and when they pass this garbage. Your sock puppet leaders are showing you who they really work for. This is why they all hold a duel citizenship. Open your fucking eyes and take a look.
    Thisnis why they call you Goyim! Look up the word and see how they really see you.

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