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The murder of Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025, raised an important question with which most churches are wrestling: should your minister, pastor, or church be discussing Kirk, or politics, or even, for that matter, culture in general?

However your church handled the Kirk assassination, the short answer to the bigger question is this: the church absolutely must discuss culture, government, and politics. After all, these things have an enormous influence over the people God has entrusted to your church. Further, the dominant ideology of many of America’s institutions, progressivism, has become increasingly hostile toward your church members’ faith—questioning it, reshaping it, attacking it, and subverting it in a thousand ways.

How can a church ignore these trends and still be a faithful guide to its members?

For believers in the twenty-first century to stand firm, we need strong leadership with the moral authority to speak to the issues of today. We need churches that boldly present a cultural apologetic for the Christian faith.

There are many ideologies which oppose biblical Christianity, but in light of its escalation of anti-Christian hostility, we must particularly help our people understand and respond to progressivism.

The murder of Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025, raised an important question with which most churches are wrestling: should your minister, pastor, or church be discussing Kirk, or politics, or even, for that matter, culture in general?

However your church handled the Kirk assassination, the short answer to the bigger question is this: the church absolutely must discuss culture, government, and politics. After all, these things have an enormous influence over the people God has entrusted to your church. Further, the dominant ideology of many of America’s institutions, progressivism, has become increasingly hostile toward your church members’ faith—questioning it, reshaping it, attacking it, and subverting it in a thousand ways.

How can a church ignore these trends and still be a faithful guide to its members?

For believers in the twenty-first century to stand firm, we need strong leadership with the moral authority to speak to the issues of today. We need churches that boldly present a cultural apologetic for the Christian faith.

There are many ideologies which oppose biblical Christianity, but in light of its escalation of anti-Christian hostility, we must particularly help our people understand and respond to progressivism.

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