Chris Tomlin's Personal Invitation to Open Kirk's Memorial
Showing 10 Chris Tomlin videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.
Chris Tomlin's decision to open Charlie Kirk's memorial service came from a specific, personal request rather than a booking: Erika Kirk reached out directly and told him "How Great Is Our God" had been one of her husband's favorite songs, and asked him to lead it. Tomlin has described the weight of that assignment shifting under him in real time, learning the event would move from a church setting to increasingly larger venues before finally landing at a stadium, with a press corps and world leaders watching a moment he'd been asked to open with worship rather than eulogy.
His own framing of the day treated it as a genuine national inflection point rather than only a memorial: Jesus proclaimed boldly and repeatedly by speaker after speaker, in Tomlin's account, in a way he considered a visible spiritual awakening rather than a scripted program. He connected that experience directly to his own forthcoming album, The King Is Still the King, releasing days after the service, framing its central declaration, an unchanging eternal truth, as directly relevant to a country he described as living through a real and specific turning point rather than an abstract one.