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.

Well, Sunday's memorial service for Charlie Kirk might have been the largest evangelistic event in human history.

Not every speaker at the event was in tune with the gospel, of course, but those who were stated it with clarity

and boldness. The tens of thousands of people who attended live, along with the millions who

watched online, heard Chris Tomlin praise the name above all names, and Pastor Rob McCoy

offer an invitation to accept Christ's Savior. And that was just in the first half hour. Before it was

all over,

Vice President J.D. Vance talked publicly about his faith, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio

beautifully summarized the entire Christian message in just under two minutes. After describing

the final moments of Kirk's life, Apologist and Kirk mentor Frank Turich stated bluntly,

and I quote,

Charlie's not in heaven because he sacrificed his life for Jesus. He's in heaven because Jesus sacrificed his life for Charlie. And of course, most powerfully, Erica Kirk,

speaking of the man who killed her husband, said this, quote, on the cross our Savior said

Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. That young man, I forgive him because it's what Christ did and what Charlie would do. The answer to hate is not hate. The answer we know from the gospel is love and always love, end quote. Look, if this murderer hoped to silence Kirk's growing influence, he only amplified it further.

What Joseph said to his brother seems to apply here as well. You intended to harm me, but God

intended it for good, to accomplish what's now being done the saving of many lives.

Or, as John said in the prologue to his gospel, the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

At the memorial service, hundreds of people indicated that they had accepted the invitation to follow Jesus Christ.

Ever since Kirk's death, more and more people are finding their way to church, many for the first time.

And in a widely shared and discussed video, a man who had never owned a suit before, talks of being inspired by Charlie to be a better husband and father, and then to return to church.

Proudly modeling the new suit that his wife bought him, he says, I'm going to try y'all.

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