Responding to an Unworthy World

On September 10, 2025 at approximately 12:230pm MDT a coward's bullet took the life of Charlie Kirk. For many of us who respected Charlie, shock and disbelief gave way to sorrow, horror and a grief which felt disproportionate… after all we didn't actually know him. But as TicTok followed TicTok, and the Facebook posts and YouTube comments began to flow, all filled with a demonic delight at this act of horrific evil - sorrow quickly found room for anger and even a sense of rage. The jibbering, dancing teachers, hysterically laughing nurses all delighting in this man's death; and of course the smug journalists blaming this gracious, gentle man for his own death brought me a point which felt frankly impossible to even think clearly. The hate-filled savagery of these responses left me feeling cold and furious… and unsettled with questioning. Questioning God, questioning my understanding of His Word, questioning my expectations of the world around me… This act and the sickening display of evil that followed in its wake demand a response. But what should that response be? How should the church, how should WE as Christ-followers answer these things? What does God require of me in the midst of this world gone insane? This world, which seems to have turned a corner to a dark reality, feels as if it has crossed over a Rubicon. It feels as if we have taken a step to find no ground under our feet and have dropped into a darkly broken parody of the reality we knew… How do we respond to these things? How do we answer? We answer with the only things we have. We answer with Truth empowered by Love.