How Charlie Became America's Most Famous Christian Witness, In His Own Words

Charlie Kirk (0:03)

My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible, have as many kids as possible. Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter. Go start a Turning Point USA high school chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life, and I encourage you to do the same. Here I am. Lord, use me. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go.

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SPEAKER_2 (1:17)

All right.

I know, right? Welcome to the 9 a.m. Thank you, everybody.

Charlie Kirk (1:31)

Wow, what a welcome. Thank you.

SPEAKER_2 (1:35)

Charlie Stinking Kirk. All right, let's go. This is going to be fun.

Charlie Kirk (1:40)

Thank you. Yeah, I love this part of the world, and it's great to be great to be in a church here.

Now, is it Sodom or Nineveh? We'll figure that out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Come on, come on, come on. I'm honored to be here, and I hope we can encourage you and speak the truth. And lots to go over.

SPEAKER_2 (1:56)

Dude, all right. We're going to do today what we shouldn't be doing, OK? Because we're in a church, OK? And I realize that God is, like, that you and I actually have a lot in common, in that we have both been called to some very dark places. So you've been called to a very dark place, which is politics. And I've been called to a very dark place, which is the church.

So we're different, right? And yet kind of the same.

And these realms aren't supposed to mix, right? Like, so how dare us, how dare we do this? How dare we come to a church service to talk about government?

Charlie Kirk (2:47)

Well, yeah, so first, you sound like Greta Thunberg. How dare you? How dare you?

SPEAKER_3 (2:52)

Look, first of all...

SPEAKER_2 (2:53)

I'm not trying to shame us, but, you know...

Charlie Kirk (2:56)

Yeah, so first of all, I'm a Bible believing Christian. That's the most important thing in my life. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade.

So everything I do comes from my love of the Lord, love of His Word, love of His eternal truths. So I once believed what most pastors believed, which is you do not mix politics and the church. You keep them separate. From the time I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade, from that point forward, I was very careful to ever mix the two together. I started Turning Point USA when I was 18 years old, and now 11 years later, it's this incredible force on college and high school campuses. We have our church outreach program. It really is a beautiful thing. Now, what changed for me, and I know it's a similar story, was when all of a sudden we decided to lock down our country and say the church was non-essential.

And that's a political thing, by the way. So number one, one of the lies that is told is that, well, we're going to keep politics separate, the church separate from government, separation of church and state. Well, then why don't they keep the state out of the church?

I thought they're supposed to be separate. Why can the local county health commissioner come in and demand email lists and sensitive records of membership? Why could they come in and say you can't congregate for Easter or for Pentecost? I thought that it was separation of church and state. No, they've never actually believed that. What they're trying to say is that the church should not get involved in the state. That's not a Biblical view. So either you believe that God's truths are applicable to all parts of your life, or they're not. So you have to make a decision. So I believe the Bible teaches us in real time how we should act, how we should marry, how we should raise our kids, how we should form government, how we should vote. So the scriptures teach us about all of these things. And so another commonplace lie that some people will say is, well, the Bible doesn't talk about political matters. Well, that would be true if you don't talk about Joseph, and Maya, Jeremiah, Esther, Daniel, Zarebabel, any of the...