Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

During the memorial service for Charlie Kirk, Defense Secretary Pete Heggsett said,

quote, Charlie started a political movement, but unleashed a spiritual revival.

Well, many people have in, been using that word revival to

describe what's happened, especially among young people, since the September 10th assassination

of the founder of Turning Point USA. According to a Fox News article published just a few weeks

after his death, pastors and religious leaders across the United States, including Arizona, where Kirk

was based, have reported a 15 to 30 percent increase in church attendance, and many of the new

attendees referred to Kirk's death as a kind of wake-up call about their mortality and faith.

J.P. DeGance, the founder and president of Communio, a ministry that helps churches strengthen

marriages, told the Christian post this, quote, there's been a lot of anecdotal feedback

from churches in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Douglas County, Colorado, reporting

that they've seen an increase in attendance over the last two Sundays.

There's one church in Michigan that said a number of

young adults who were raised in the church but hadn't been there and people who hadn't seen them for

years showed back up. Also, Bible sales in the month of September were about 36% higher than the

previous year, according to Nielsen Bookscan. Mark Schoenwald, president and chief executive of Harper Collins Christian publishing,

was one of several book publishing experts who attributed the surge of Bible sales to Kirk's death.

As he told Decision Magazine, Kirk's shooting awakened a lot of people.

And of course, every single aspect of the Turning Point organization has seen

an incredible surge of interest in the wake of Kirk's death. That includes TPSA Faith, a group that

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