“But I know that what the enemy intends for bad, God is going to do more on the other side of this than anybody could ever imagine,” Miles added, sharing that he is receiving multiple reports of the gospel spreading because of Kirk’s death. “I just got a message yesterday from a school teacher where they allowed somebody to come in and share the gospel with the fifth or sixth grade class,” he said, “and literally the entire class came forward to receive Christ or to rededicate their life.”
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“God is taking this moment where the enemy thought he won, and he is just gonna rub it in the kingdom of darkness’ face because God can’t be beaten,” Miles stated.
Miles said that Kirk “died doing the very thing that he was called to do. I don’t know a more honorable man.”
“I don’t have any sort of poetic words right now, but I just can’t stress enough that the Charlie Kirk that I knew was an incredible brother, boss, friend, and I’m so thankful that he knew the Lord and that I can still say that he’s a brother in Christ because I know I’m going to see him again,” Miles said.
Miles encouraged pastors to address, in some way or another, Kirk’s assassination during this weekend’s church services. He said:
We’re doing a vigil tonight at our church, and we’ve been advertising in the community, and I think we’re going to have a ton of people showing up this evening. We’re just getting emails and calls every moment leading up to it. I’m preaching Sunday and I’m going to deal with this really the whole service. I mean, there will be other verses and Scriptures I’m talking about, but it’s going to be standing in the face of persecution [and] how to respond. Tertullian said, “The death of the martyr is the seed of the church.” I had shared with [Charlie] that there’s three types of pastors. There’s the true pastors and the traitorous pastors, and there’s this middle category of the trembling pastor. The true and traitorous are usually pretty easy to spot, but the trembling pastors, those are the ones that they didn’t know what to do during COVID or BLM. They stayed quiet during Roe being overturned. They’re ideologically in a line with us, but they were afraid to speak out. They are like that Gideon hiding in the wine press, just hoping the battle is going to go by without them. Charlie just grabbed a hold of that idea and anytime he talked about pastors, that idea was very central to him. And I would say that this is another one of those moments. But my question is, pastors, have you learned from the previous ones? Because if you were afraid to speak out during COVID [and] you were afraid to speak out when Roe was overturned, are you really gonna sit there and still be afraid? Like, to still be afraid now, Charlie would lose his mind if he saw pastors…It’s not about him, he wouldn’t make it about him, but he would be, if this were somebody else that this had happened to, some other Christian, you know, thought leader that this happened to, Charlie would lose his mind if he didn’t see somebody stand up and say something about it. So if you’re attending a church and your pastor doesn’t even mention this, doesn’t offer a prayer for the family, doesn’t say, “Guys, we gotta get serious about the gospel because this world is hurting,” if there’s not even a side comment to it, you’re probably in the wrong church. And I think that to the pastors out there—I love pastors. My job is supporting and ministering to pastors—to the pastors out there, gosh, it’s time to speak. If there was ever a time to speak, it is a time to speak right now. I believe that the Lord is looking to the church to rise up during this moment.
Miles shared that he has a friend that he’s been ministering to for over 25 years that reached out and told him that he would be at Kirk’s vigil tonight.
“This is a moment in American history that people will remember for the rest of their lives,” Miles said. “It’s our MLK or JFK moment. It’s a Twin Towers sort of moment that you just don’t forget.” And because of the trauma, “the church has an opportunity when things like this happen to shrink back, to become afraid.”
“I mean, look, there’s part of me, like, I just walked outside, [and] I literally had thoughts of like, who’s around? Like I’m scanning the bushes, like there’s trauma here for real,” Miles said.
