From the Archives: Charlie On Why Churches Must Engage the Culture
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Kirk
4.6 • 65.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In this classic speech, delivered just as lockdowns were ending in spring 2021, Charlie reflects on the lessons from the COVID era and why Christians cannot retreat from the public square. He explains why the real threat was never the church influencing government, but government controlling the Christian church.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Charlie Kirk. |
| 0:04.6 | I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country fighting for the future of our republic. |
| 0:11.3 | My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. |
| 0:14.5 | If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable. |
| 0:19.9 | But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a turning point USA College Chapter. Go start a turning point. You would say high school chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. |
| 0:39.0 | I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. |
| 0:41.2 | Most important decision I ever made in my life, |
| 0:43.8 | and I encourage you to do the same. |
| 0:45.2 | Here I am. |
| 0:46.1 | Lord, use me. |
| 0:48.1 | Buckle up, everybody. |
| 0:49.4 | Here we go. |
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| 1:09.0 | I really want to focus on the five things I learned in the 15 days to slow the spread, |
| 1:14.5 | which has been a whole year. |
| 1:15.6 | And it's been very interesting. |
| 1:17.2 | But one thing I've heard a lot of pastors say that don't want to get involved is they say, |
| 1:23.4 | well, it's separation of church and state. |
| 1:25.1 | We don't do politics around here. |
| 1:27.4 | First of all, that's not biblical church and state. We don't do politics around here. First of all, |
| 1:28.2 | that's not biblical. It's not constitutional. It's not moral. But let's take their unbiblical, |
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