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September 12, 2025

Charlie Kirk delivers a powerful message to Christians at Truth and Liberty Conference in Colorado, confronting the alarming reality that 51% of evangelical Christians weren't planning to vote in the 2024 election. Kirk addresses the dangerous silence of pastors on critical issues, from abortion to border security, and explains why Donald Trump's record deserves Christian support despite rhetorical concerns. He confronts self-righteous attitudes in the church, celebrates Trump's pro-life Supreme Court victories that led to 10 states abolishing abortion, and exposes the modern-day sex slavery crisis at the southern border that the church refuses to acknowledge. Kirk warns that if Kamala Harris wins, it will be because the church handed her the presidency, making this a five-alarm fire for America's future.

The Missing Ingredient in the 2024 Election

Charlie Kirk arrived in Colorado with 18 days remaining before the 2024 presidential election, not to campaign in a swing state, but to address what he identified as the most critical missing ingredient in the conservative movement: church engagement. Despite leading the largest get-out-the-vote operation in the country focused on returning Donald Trump to the White House, Kirk witnessed alarming trends that brought him to the Truth and Liberty Conference at Caris Bible College.

The catalyst for this urgent message was a George Barna study revealing that 51% of evangelical Christians were not planning to vote in the election. Kirk didn't mince words about the stakes: "If Kamala Harris wins, it will be because the church handed her the presidency. It is the only missing ingredient that we see right now."

Kirk pointed to encouraging trends everywhere except in the church. Young people, particularly young men, were becoming the most conservative they'd been in 50 years. The working class—truck drivers, plumbers, electricians, welders, and police officers—were rising up. Mothers were showing up at school board meetings in unprecedented numbers. But the church, which had always been the foundation, remained largely silent.

Three Reasons for Church Apathy

Kirk identified three primary reasons for the shocking lack of Christian engagement in what he characterized as one of the most consequential elections in American history.

The first reason was what Kirk called "a spirit of pomposity and self-righteousness" among some pastors who declared they couldn't vote for Donald Trump because he's a sinner. Kirk reminded the audience of the obvious biblical truth that all people are sinners who fall short of the glory of God and need Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. The idea that Christians should only vote for morally perfect candidates demonstrated a fundamental misunderstanding of both politics and theology.

The second reason centered on Trump's pro-life credentials. Kirk, who identifies as 100% pro-life and has the battle scars to prove it from speaking at hostile college campuses, examined Trump's actual record rather than just rhetoric. He pointed out that 10 states—including Texas, Oklahoma, and the Dakotas—had completely abolished abortion, something made possible only through Trump's Supreme Court appointments of Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh.

"George W. Bush didn't give that to you. Ronald Reagan didn't give that to you. Newt Gingrich didn't give that to you. God bless him. It was Donald J. Trump that gave you the most pro-life victories we've ever seen in history," Kirk declared.

The third reason was the overwhelming distraction and busyness of modern life, which Kirk would address later through the lens of observing the Sabbath.

The Moral Clarity on Abortion

Kirk pushed back hard against Christians who claimed moral superiority by refusing to vote for Trump over abortion concerns. He pointed out that silence equals consent, and by remaining silent or not voting, these Christians were essentially co-signing the Democrat party's extreme abortion stance.

Kirk described witnessing abortion clinics outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where women entered pregnant and left without their babies. The DNC had officially sponsored and encouraged this programming at their national convention. He also reminded the audience that the Biden-Harris administration had turned Easter into Transgender Day of Awareness.

He challenged those who criticized Trump's pro-life stance to examine their own standards: "Did you vote for George W. Bush? Oh, yeah. And he's a great Christian. Really? A great Christian whose wife was pro-choice and he never ever spoke at the March for Life and never gave us pro-life justices."

Kirk suggested that some Christians were "too high on your own supply of Christian doctrine" and couldn't accept that Trump, despite not constantly quoting Bible verses, was delivering victories for Christians. "Maybe you should humble yourself before the Lord and realize he's being used as a vessel for God's purposes here in this country."

The Border Crisis and Modern-Day Slavery

One of Kirk's most passionate segments addressed the crisis at the southern border, which he framed as a modern-day slavery issue that the church was inexcusably ignoring. He asked the audience whether pastors would be in error for not speaking against historical slavery or current sex trafficking, then delivered shocking statistics.

There were 320,000 children who had gone missing at the border, many of whom had become teenage prostitutes and sex slaves for the cartels in the interior of the United States. Kirk explained that one of the first actions the Harris-Biden administration took was eliminating DNA testing at the border.

Under Trump's policy, DNA testing took only 90 seconds using saliva swabs to determine whether adults claiming to be parents were actually related to the children they brought. This simple procedure prevented traffickers from claiming false relationships. But without DNA testing, Kirk described the horrific reality: a trembling 13-year-old girl who had been raped multiple times on the journey north would arrive at the border with a muscular 35-year-old pimp claiming to be her father, and officials would simply accept the claim and release them into the United States.

"Under Trump, we do a DNA test. We're like, 'You're lying. That's not correct. We're going to find out who her parents actually are because we're not going to cosign to her becoming the worst thing that we could possibly tolerate,'" Kirk explained.

He issued a stark challenge to pastors: "Pastors are too interested in bigger buildings and more budgets and not in the fact that kids, God's children, are being sold as sex slaves in our own country. This is not happening in Afghanistan. This is not happening in some far-off distant land. This is on our turf. This is in our own nation."

The Call to Action for Christians

Kirk didn't just diagnose the problem; he offered concrete solutions for Christians wanting to make a difference in the election. He emphasized that early voting numbers were encouraging, with Arizona showing remarkable improvement from being down 18 points in 2020 to being up 12 points at the same point in the 2024 cycle. Georgia and North Carolina were seeing record turnout despite the hurricane that had devastated western North Carolina.

For individual Christians, Kirk recommended creating accountability within church communities. He suggested that church members go through their small groups, community groups, and text threads to ensure everyone was registered and planning to vote. He questioned why churches had ministries for everything—marriage, prison recovery, drug rehabilitation—but no ministry to ensure church members were exercising their civic duty.

Kirk also issued a controversial but clear challenge regarding church leadership: "If your pastor remains silent after multiple loving but direct and truthful confrontations, you need to cut it off and say, 'I'm going to find another church.' You have to stop supporting those churches because you are then a co-sponsor in the thing that you guys are all agreeing with."

He emphasized that Christians were called to be salt and light, which by definition means changing the environment they come in contact with. Currently, Christians were not changing the environment of America at all.

Economic Issues and Christian Values

Kirk connected economic policy to biblical principles, pointing out that private property ownership was a Christian virtue. He noted that the first real estate transaction in the Bible was Abraham buying the plot of land to bury his wife and himself in Hebron.

Under Trump's presidency, a family earning $75,000 a year could buy a home. Now it required $130,000 a year, nearly $150,000 in the Denver metro area. Kirk attributed this to the Harris-Biden administration pumping $6 trillion of unnecessary government spending into the economy, which increased asset prices through simple supply and demand.

Additionally, allowing 10 million new people into the country created housing demand that drove up prices even further. Kirk pointed to the situation in Aurora, Colorado, where Tren de Aragua gang members had taken over apartment complexes that taxpayers were subsidizing.

Health and the Body as Temple

When asked about making healthy decisions in America's compromised food system, Kirk addressed what he called one of the sins the church was most guilty of: sloth and the inability to call out sloth within the church. He emphasized that Scripture teaches that our bodies are temples, and what we put into our bodies is a form of worship or desecration to the Lord.

Kirk shared alarming statistics comparing American children to their Japanese counterparts. In Japan, only 3% of 15-year-olds were chronically obese or overweight, while in America that number was 50%. Twenty-five years ago, autism affected 1 in 10,000 kids; now it was 1 in 25.

He praised Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s endorsement of Trump and his role in the campaign, explaining that Kennedy would be sent "like a heat-seeking missile into the FDA and the CDC" to blow up the food pyramid and eliminate the fake science claiming highly processed foods were healthy. Kirk explained that the Democrat plan involved authorizing Ozempic for 13-year-olds on Medicaid rather than addressing diet, activity, or nutrition.

Kirk pointed out that of the three types of food—proteins, fats, and carbohydrates—only carbohydrates were unnecessary for survival, yet they were the most elevated in the American diet. Meanwhile, healthy fats, which literally create brain material, had been demonized.

The Sabbath Solution for Busy Lives

When asked how he maintained his relationship with Jesus amid his demanding schedule, Kirk revealed that his next book would be about the Sabbath. He shared his personal practice of turning off his phone Friday night and not turning it back on until Sunday, dedicating Saturday entirely to family and rest.

Kirk emphasized that the Sabbath was the only ritual among the Ten Commandments, making it particularly important. He noted that even God rested on the seventh day, and the Sabbath represented a standing celebration in time where humans thank God for creating the heavens and the earth.

"If I cannot walk into your home and tell that it's the Sabbath because it looks like every other day, you're not honoring the Sabbath," Kirk challenged. "If it looks like every other day, then you aren't dedicating one day to God."

He acknowledged that people might claim they were too busy, but countered: "I'm busier than you. I'm sorry. I hate to pull rank on this one, guys. But it's the question of what matters most." Kirk testified that observing the Sabbath had changed his life, allowing him to honor his parents better, put his marriage first, and put Jesus and God first without constantly checking emails and text messages.

Final Warnings and Encouragement

Kirk assessed the election as a 50/50 race but emphasized it wouldn't be that close if the church spoke up. He warned that George Barna, the gold standard of polling, had indicated that 31 million evangelicals were planning to stay home, and the vast majority of thousands of pastors surveyed would not speak about the election.

He also addressed concerns about election integrity, pointing out that despite all the irregularities in 2020, the margin came down to just 41,000 ballots across Arizona, Wisconsin, and Georgia. Millions of people hadn't voted because they believed it wouldn't matter, but Kirk emphasized that the easiest way to ensure votes aren't counted is not to vote at all.

Kirk warned about a potential crisis if Democrats won the House of Representatives, noting that Jamie Raskin had suggested they might not certify Trump as the winner even if he won the Electoral College. This made winning House races crucial, even in blue states like Colorado that might not send their electoral votes to Trump.

Throughout his message, Kirk maintained that this election represented a five-alarm fire for America. He called the church's potential silence comparable to its failure during Nazi Germany, warning that Christians would be held to a higher account if they remained silent while children were sold into sex slavery and the nation moved toward moral collapse.

His final challenge was simple but direct: The church must lead culture, not conform to the world. Pastors must preach the word without fear of offending people, because church is not a place to be affirmed but a place to be saved and corrected. And every Christian must recognize that in this moment, their vote and their voice could determine whether America continues as a nation under God or descends into a darkness from which it may not return.

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