“I’ve heard many issues. Some individuals have mentioned this can be a political problem, some have mentioned it’s an American problem, some say it’s a right-wing or Trump problem. It’s none of that. Very merely, our brother in Christ, Charlie Kirk, has been assassinated,” mentioned Pastor Arron Moon, opening a shifting service devoted to Kirk on September 11, 2025.
Though I’m Catholic, I spend lots of time at The Refuge Fellowship Calvary Chapel in Chiang Mai, the place I reside between missions.
Tonight, throughout a particular memorial service, the pastor defined that Kirk was carefully related to Calvary Chapel in america.
Trying across the room, I noticed Thais, Chinese language, Mongolians, Burmese, Individuals, Australians, Indians, and Europeans all grieving.
Even the Chinese language members, who in all probability hadn’t watched lots of Charlie Kirk’s movies due to the language barrier, have been crying and praying.
They understood {that a} man who spoke the reality had died for the Phrase of God. Many on this congregation come from nations the place Christians are persecuted.
They know the burden of persecution, and given the esteem they maintain for America, it was stunning to see the land of the free permitting Christians to be silenced on school campuses.
The pastor mentioned Kirk had been killed “Due to the reality that he spoke, the reality of God’s phrase.” He requested the church to return collectively as one physique to wish and grieve, inviting anybody who felt moved to provide testimony.
“However then ultimately, keep in mind who Jesus is, and his guarantees… I preach nearly each Sunday that we reside in a really evil world, and that we’re going to face trials, troubles, tribulations, persecution.”
Many members of this church have a connection to the battle in Burma. The pastor as soon as served as head pastor of a church in Yangon.
Shortly after the coup in 2021, he was almost killed when a sniper’s bullet struck the church window throughout from his pulpit throughout Easter Sunday worship.
He later witnessed the army open hearth on parishioners protesting the generals’ overturning of the elections. Within the chaos, he scooped up two youngsters and helped them escape as troopers started killing protesters.
Some congregants are Free Burma Rangers who’ve run into hails of bullets to evacuate civilians. Others have been compelled to flee battle, whereas nonetheless others serve in ministry and humanitarian work amongst Burmese refugees on either side of the border.
Some are missionaries who’ve labored in different battle zones or in nations the place Christianity is unlawful. Most of the relaxation are in Chiang Mai searching for non secular freedom.
The Individuals within the room have been all patriots, and each parishioner, regardless of their nation, had identified violence, battle, and non secular oppression. All of them felt Charlie Kirk’s demise on a number of ranges.
As parishioners spoke about Kirk, some recommended his Christian religion and his willingness to talk it publicly. Others requested for prayers for his spouse and youngsters, who will now develop up with no father.
When it got here my flip, I centered on Charlie Kirk as a Christian and journalist, a person who challenged mainstream media and institution narratives to talk unpopular truths. These truths have been grounded in information and supported by Scripture.
The pastor, like many Christians, spoke of Charlie as a martyr: “I believe all of us are conscious that 11 of the 12 disciples have been martyred, and the twelfth was imprisoned. John the Baptist was beheaded, and Jesus himself was crucified.” He went on to say, “That usually appears distant. Effectively, at this time it wasn’t distant.”
He directed the congregation to Matthew 3, the place John the Baptist preached repentance and a name to show to God. John’s mission was to proclaim the reality of God, the fact of sin, and the individuals’s pressing have to repent.
“He shared the reality of Jesus. Charlie Kirk additionally had a tremendous anointing from God upon him…simply as John the Baptist…he referred to as sin, sin.”
“He didn’t go together with the tradition. He fought the tradition. He fought the system and he referred to as it out black and white, in line with God’s phrase. This wasn’t about politics. It wasn’t American. He went out and he shared with the faculty campuses and the children the reality of God’s phrase.”
The pastor defined that John the Baptist, too, confirmed no restraint.
In Luke 3:19–20, John condemned Herod Antipas for marrying his brother’s spouse and for different wrongs. In response, Herod imprisoned John. Daring and unafraid, John declared God’s reality even to these in energy.
“It led to his imprisonment after which his demise, his martyrdom.”
Charlie Kirk went into universities, one of many hardest however most necessary locations for ministry, the place college students are bombarded with lies. There he stood and spoke reality, difficult the tradition, debating publicly, and proclaiming God’s phrase.
“He referred to as out sin for what it was, however then he at all times pointed them to Jesus and his religion and their have to repent and switch to God. For this, he paid the last word value.”
The pastor reminded us that God has a plan, even when we don’t perceive it. None of us is aware of why Charlie Kirk needed to die, however we all know he’s in Heaven now.
He additionally famous that Kirk’s ministry is known as Turning Level and prayed that Charlie’s demise wouldn’t be in useless, however that it’d change into a real turning level for our nation and the world.
