by Dr. Steve LaTulippe, America Outloud:
Memorials mean something. Their chief purpose is to remind us that we can learn and pass down valuable lessons from momentous historic events, be they tragic or triumphant. Like Pearl Harbor and VJ Day. When President Trump proclaimed Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s National Day of Remembrance on October 14 (his birthday), some mocked while others respectfully mourned his assassination the month prior. Is Charlie Kirk deserving of a national memorial? What lessons might he teach future generations?
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A year after Charlie’s death, his commemoration sparked a polarized response, as one might expect in the Divided States of America. For some moral misfits, it evoked memories of a bigot, racist, Islamophobe, and foolhardy Christian nationalist. Others remember a beloved person who gave everything he had to serving his God and country.
I strongly side with the latter. Charlie’s Day is most appropriate and deserving. He left his mark on the planet in a uniquely Christian way that would have made our nation’s founders beam with pride. He unselfishly served his country and influenced both young and old by unprecedented means. As President Trump wrote in Charlie’s remembrance proclamation, “Today, our Nation honors the immortal memory of Charlie — a father, a husband, a Christian martyr, and a titan of the American conservative movement.” And he did it without serving a day of military service, lacking a college degree, and sans accumulated years to make him wise.
Charlie moved mountains using a strategy of three “simple causes” (in Trump’s words): defending the truth, encouraging debate, and spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ. His approach to converting people to Christ was simple. He spoke the truth boldly and without reservation. He backed his words with facts. He encouraged reasonable debate and called out nonsense. He always challenged people to investigate truth for themselves, and he invited them into the light.
It was a grand strategy. What I liked most about Charlie Kirk is that he did his own meticulous investigations on weighty political, theological, and social issues. Proponents of woke liberalism couldn’t stand up to him in debates. Whether discussing Islam or Israel, CRT or DEI, sexual perversion, marriage and family, or the Sabbath principle and Christian liberty, Charlie’s first appeal was always the Bible.
It doesn’t mean others never influenced him. They did. President Trump, Dennis Prager (a Jew), and his local church minister all influenced Charlie in diverse ways, but he never blindly followed anyone. Instead, he scrutinized for himself what the Bible had to say about the issues of our day. He applied rules of sound Bible interpretation with far more skill, discipline, and integrity than most preachers and theologians. He proved that integrity is the foremost hermeneutic (interpretive, exegetical) principle.
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