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Charlie Kirk is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, the largest and fastest growing conservative youth activist organization in the country with over 250,000 student members, over 150 full-time staff, and a presence on over 2,000 high school and college campuses nationwide. Charlie is also the Chairman of Students for Trump, which aims to activate one million new college voters on campuses in battleground states in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election. His social media reaches over 100 million people per month and according to Axios, he is one of the "top 10 most engaged" Twitter handles in the world. He is also the host of “The Charlie Kirk Show,” which regularly ranks among the top news shows on Apple podcast charts.
Jack Hibbs Explains Why Christians Must Vote and Pastors Must Speak Out on Biblical Values
Jack Hibbs, senior and founding pastor of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, addresses the urgent call for Christians to engage in politics as a sacred biblical responsibility. Hibbs challenges the silence of many pastors across America, arguing that sitting out elections is equivalent to burying the talents Jesus spoke about in scripture. He confronts the apathy within the church, critiques Christianity Today's suggestion that not voting may be biblically appropriate, and dismisses fears about the Johnson Amendment. With one Sunday remaining before the election, Hibbs makes a passionate case for why every believer must vote according to biblical values on issues like life, Israel, marriage, and borders. He also shares encouraging news about the rising conservative movement in California and issues a direct challenge to both pastors and congregants to fulfill their duty in preserving the Republic.
Jack Hibbs frames Christian involvement in politics as a sacred trust rooted directly in scripture. Drawing from Jesus's parable of the talents, Hibbs explains that each person has been given opportunities and responsibilities to advance what God has entrusted to them. Jesus condemned the servant who buried his talent rather than investing it, and Hibbs applies this principle directly to voting.
For Christians who claim they will sit out the election, Hibbs argues they are actually giving their vote to candidates who stand against biblical values. He specifically mentions policies that are anti-Israel, anti-life, anti-God's design for marriage, anti-border, and anti-constitutional. Christians have deluded themselves into thinking that by not voting they are doing good, when in reality they are practicing apathy.
Hibbs emphasizes that if he can vote to block the death of even one more child, that alone justifies his participation. He reminds Christians that neither candidate can walk on water—only Jesus did that and only He can. Believers need to mature and understand they are not voting for a pope, priest, or messiah.
The Coalition Effect of Voting for Trump
When voting for Trump, Hibbs points out that Christians also get a coalition of people who will do good for the nation, including JD Vance, Vivek Ramaswamy, Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, and RFK Jr. By sitting out the election, Christians bury their Judeo-Christian fundamental freedoms and the constitutional republic itself.
Hibbs insists that every Christian who names the name of Christ should vote for Trump because he is closest to a biblical worldview. Trump is not perfect—nobody is—but he fits the bill best for the believer. Christians must get away from emotions and get back to obedience to the Bible.
Why Pastors Are Silent
When asked why so many pastors are silent on these clear moral issues, Hibbs says the answer is too long for one program but identifies the primary problem as a lack of fear of God. Pastors in America are not reading and studying the Bible for themselves, so they cannot address the issues their congregants deal with Monday through Friday or even Saturday on the soccer field.
These pastors do not equip their people to handle conversations at the water cooler on Monday morning. Instead, as Charles Spurgeon said, they preach sermon-ettes for Christian-ettes. Pastors must equip their people for the darkest age this world and nation has ever seen.
The Christian pastor should put away his fear. If his board or denomination says he cannot talk about these issues, it is time to either get fired from that denomination or start a church down the street. The hour is so late that God has been merciful, and the result of this election will be defined by the church's engagement or lack thereof.
The Church as Counselor to the King
The church is the counselor to the king. As the church influences or does not influence the culture, so the nation will go. Right now, the church is indifferent toward the suffering of neighbors and the persecution of believers.
Addressing Christianity Today's recent article suggesting that not voting may be the best way for many Christians to heed their conscience and the prompting of the Holy Spirit, Hibbs states emphatically that no Spirit-filled believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit would say at an hour like this to not get involved, to let babies die, to let trafficking of kids across the border continue.
Since when have Christians taken their conscience and made it greater than the Bible itself? A believer's conscience is to be rebuked and shaped by the word of God. Conscience is not king—Jesus is king. Much of this rhetoric exists because people want to feel better about themselves. Jesus said in the last days when He returned, would He even find faith on the earth? Apathy is what is being served up in the pulpits today by cowards who have completely shirked their biblical calling to equip and disciple their people to engage in a godless culture.
We Don't Deserve Liberty
Only by the grace and mercy of God does America still have a country where this discussion can even take place, because the nation does not deserve liberty anymore. America has turned its back, and only because of God's goodness does the country continue to have even a little bit of this freedom.
The Johnson Amendment Excuse
Many pastors claim they cannot speak out on politics because of the Johnson Amendment and the Internal Revenue Service. With one Sunday before the election, this is the last chance for pastors to get it right as they prepare their sermons.
Hibbs asks why pastors are afraid of the IRS. Does God need the IRS? Does the church need the Johnson Amendment or 501(c)(3) status? Pastors are to answer to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. If believers do not exercise their freedoms, they lose them. Pastors have First Amendment rights also. They pay taxes and can speak.
Hibbs points out that Taylor Swift does not hold anything back, yet pastors hold back. Citing Ezekiel 33, he notes that God told the watchmen on the wall that if they do not blow the trumpet of warning to the evil coming to their people, God will require their blood from their hand. If they warn the people and the people do not listen, then it is on their head. But God commands them to warn.
Every pastor must this Sunday speak out on the biblical answer regarding the unborn, marriage, gender, Israel, borders, the United States, and the founding of the country. Pastors must stop thinking that one area is sacred and another is secular. Under God, it is all sacred. Jesus made this clear when He said render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.
Every Jew in the audience when Jesus said that understood He had just placed Caesar under the rule of God. Jesus was not saying Caesar is in charge of one thing and God is in charge of another. Rather, Caesar is under God's authority, and Rome is under God's authority. They all understood this then, but the Western church has completely messed this up.
Life Party Versus Death Party
Christians must register to vote and vote biblical worldview values. One party is for wholesale death—they even celebrated it at their convention with abortion trucks. The other party is for the preservation of life. If voters do not know who these people are, they should simply vote down the ballot for the life party versus the death party. It is that simple.
California Is Rising
While much focus is on battleground states, California cannot be forgotten. People have justifiably written off California for so long, and the state has been at the bottom and is so debased that it sent people like Kamala Harris from California to Washington.
However, something remarkable is happening. Across California, rallies have been held to equip churches, pastors, and congregants on how to conduct voter registration and legal ballot collection. Pastors have been equipped on how to speak to the issues. The turnout has been overwhelming.
As a native-born and raised Californian, Hibbs says he has never seen so many people excited and motivated. Since 2016, California has been trending more and more conservative, though this is rarely reported. The proof is in the results: Mike Johnson is Speaker of the House. He got his job from Kevin McCarthy. Kevin McCarthy got the job because Nancy Pelosi was fired when California sent more Republican congressmen and women to Washington DC than any other state in the 2022 election cycle.
Something is happening in California. People are getting charged up, and the state may produce some impressive numbers on election night.
How to Approach a Silent Pastor
For congregants who have a pastor who is silent or trembling on these issues, especially with only days remaining before the election, how should they approach their pastor? Consider someone who has attended a church for twenty years, and that church remains completely silent on critical moral issues like radical abortion measures.
Hibbs cites Isaiah 10:1, which says to stop those who write bad laws, and Proverbs 29:2, which says when the righteous are in power the people rejoice, but when the wicked are in power the people groan. God designed churches to become like their pastors, and pastors should follow Christ. Congregants will become like their pastor and will be tempted to be silent.
The number one person mentioned as inheriting hell in Revelation 21:8 is the coward. There are no excuses for pastors. The ship is sinking and they want to talk about lighting and smoke screens. This is the last moment to preserve the Republic, and God has designed it to fall on the shoulders of the church. The answer is not in the White House or the State House—it will be in God's house. What will believers do with this opportunity?
The Secular World Is Watching
The secular world is looking at the church and asking why the church is so silent. The unsaved community is asking why the church does not care about liberty as much as non-believers do. This is a dark reality.
Hibbs recently appeared on a program hosted by a man who is not of the Christian faith but is a man of faith. That host said his people will not vote and asked where the Christians are, because the nation needs Christians to keep the country free.
Hibbs shared data from the George Barna poll showing how close Biden won in 2020, but if Christians had turned out, it would have crushed all the swing states. The impact would have been remarkable.
No Excuses for Christians
Christians must not bury their light or put it under a basket. If a pastor is not speaking out on these issues, that does not leave the congregant off the hook. Believers must go do the right thing: register and vote. In many places, they can even register and vote the same day. But they must vote life, vote Israel, vote borders—and that means voting for Trump.
As Calvin Robinson said, Jesus is not on the ballot, but Jezebel is.
