Epoch Times - "America lost a legend…an ambassador to an entire generation”: Pastor Jackson Lahmeyer
Aired: 2025-09-20
Duration: 02:35


=== Charlie Kirk's Legacy (02:35) ===

[00:00:00]  Charlie was a friend of mine and it's one of those things, you know it can happen.
[00:00:05]  You don't think it ever will happen, but then it did happen and America lost a legend.
[00:00:11]  The body of Christ lost an ambassador to an entire generation.
[00:00:14]  I called him America's youth pastor and a wife lost a husband.
[00:00:20]  Two kids lost their father and many of us we lost a friend.
[00:00:24]  But at the same time, I recognize that Charlie Kirk gained his eternal reward.
[00:00:31]  And he heard the words that I want to hear.
[00:00:33]  Well done, my good and faithful servant.
[00:00:36]  And Charlie's more alive today than you and I are right here.
[00:00:40]  And so we rejoice with him, but obviously mourn for his family, the Turning Point USA family.
[00:00:47]  And then we have to ask the question, you know, how now shall we live in the aftermath of what just took place?
[00:00:54]  Because it's awful, not just the assassination, but the response by so many fellow Americans who are celebrating his death, who are mocking his death.
[00:01:05]  And so it goes to show you that our culture is in desperate need of healing and restoration.
[00:01:12]  You know, people say he was full of hate speech, right?
[00:01:15]  I don't think so.
[00:01:16]  I think they just hated his speech because he was so good at what he did.
[00:01:19]  He would allow people to express their opinions.
[00:01:22]  And then he would give an argument that was in a gentle manner, but was in a convincing manner.
[00:01:28]  And so Charlie would reach you in your mind, but also he'd reach you in your heart because Charlie cared about people.
[00:01:35]  It wasn't the person was not the enemy.
[00:01:38]  The idea might have been the enemy, but the person was not the enemy.
[00:01:43]  And so that resonated with people because here was a person that I think they understood.
[00:01:50]  He doesn't hate me.
[00:01:52]  He actually cares about me.
[00:01:54]  He's listening to me.
[00:01:55]  He just disagrees with the ideas that maybe I have.
[00:01:59]  That's why Charlie was taken out because he was so good at reasoning with people and talking with people and he was so effective.
[00:02:09]  And that was why he was so dangerous in the sense of he was able to dismantle ideas and arguments in a way without being violent, without being mean or spiteful or anything like that.
[00:02:22]  And so, no, Charlie Kirk's approach did not fail.
[00:02:26]  It was extremely successful.
[00:02:28]  And it's the model that we need to adopt moving forward if we're going to bring healing and restoration to the country.