It’s been 134 days since an assassin’s bullet killed her husband, Charlie Kirk, but Erika Kirk has soldiered on, including speaking last night at Harvest Church in Los Angeles to kick off Turning Point USA’s “Make Heaven Crowded” tour.
Billed as “A gospel centered gathering calling people to repentance, faith, and bold obedience to Jesus,” the event is planned for 29 other cities this year throughout the United States. They’ll be at Awaken Church in San Diego on Thursday night.
In addition to TPUSA president Erika Kirk, Wednesday’s service featured Pastor Greg Laurie.
At the time of the slain TPUSA founder’s death, Pastor Laurie had stated, “The greatest tribute we can pay to Charlie is calling people to Christ and speaking unashamedly on cultural issues.”
That’s precisely what many within the TPUSA orbit have done, especially Erika Kirk. For doing so, she’s been vilified by some radical activists and even accused by unhinged conspiratorialists for being implicit in her husband’s murder. Others have judged her for jumping back into the work, even questioning how she’s been grieving.
Rather than engage the criticism or defend her actions, Mrs. Kirk has kept her focus on the work at hand. She told Fox News’ Shannon Bream, “If myself or Charlie spent every single second responding to every accusation, responding to every insult, every judgment, we’d get nothing done. We just wouldn’t. I’m not gonna ask God to remove those people from life. It just makes me stronger.”
Speaking on Wednesday night at Harvest Church, Erika picked up on that philosophy, sharing a perspective that is both refreshing and instructive for those of us who understand that the Lord commands us to be engaged in culture. She told those gathered:
I operate very clearly. Whatever decision is in front of me, it will go through a very strict lens. Is this going to bring me closer to Heaven or is it going to bring me further away from Heaven? If it is going to bring me further away from heaven, step aside Satan, I do not want to touch you with a 10-foot pole.
I do not want to be around anything that is going to take me further away from my home in Heaven. I don’t. That’s where my heart is.
She then delivered a statement that every Christian can personalize and take to heart:
And so as long as I remain obedient to God and abide in His Word, and I’m in the jet stream of His Will, the opinions of this world mean nothing to me. Nothing.
With the advent of social media and the explosion of citizen and activist journalists, there are more opinions than ever being pushed out — and often to decry or to diminish the socially conservative point of view. The drumbeat is persistent and consistent. It’s easy to be swept up in it, especially given the worldly trappings that often surround the popularly held opinions of the day.
But millions of followers don’t make a foolish opinion right. The acclaim or acceptance of others won’t soften or forgive sin. As King Solomon advised, “Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge” (Proverbs 14:7).
As the late Dr. Adrian Rogers observed, “It doesn’t matter if you please the whole world and don’t please Jesus. But if you please Jesus, it doesn’t matter whom you displease.”
Please continue praying for Erika Kirk and her family.
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