The University Trenches

I hope you can join us tonight.

To understand what Charlie Kirk was doing, you have to remember his context.

Charlie was debating edgy university students who often used profane language and hurled insults at conservatives and Christians.

He wasn’t playing cards at a retirement home.

In a setting where anti-Christian professors were never challenged, and where many Christian intellectuals felt pressured to compromise with leftism and remain silent, Charlie Kirk changed all of that.

Suddenly, conservative and Christian students felt they could speak up and defend their beliefs. They saw how wrong it was to pay tuition for ideological training camps. Charlie inspired them to have courage. And being courageous is loving because it presents the truth to students who are captive to unbelief.

If you see a short clip from one of Charlie’s debates and don’t understand why he said what he said, watch the whole debate. I’ve seen many snippets used to discredit him or even twist the point he was making.

But remember where he was. He got down into the intellectual trenches of our anti-Christian universities because he cared about students. You don’t have to agree with every point he made to admire that.

And I hope it inspires you to also love our lost university students and learn how to debate their unbelief so you can present them with the truth.

Our memorial is filling up fast. People from all perspectives are coming to remember Charlie. I hope you can be there.