Originally posted on Facebook on Sunday, September 14, 2025.

My wife and I were separated by an ocean from our home. We were in an airport and as a plane was unboarding, a couple came off wearing Mississippi State apparel. I immediately exclaimed, "Hail State!". They promptly responded, "Hail State!" which led to a conversation.

Sadly, I have more confidence of being embraced by someone with association to a university than I have of someone wearing a cross. Jesus said, "By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." (John 13:35) And we, as Christians, are failing fantastically to meet that standard. The aim of everything I do is to perfect our love to the glory of God.

Many arguments have been leveled against me and what I've written in my earlier post about Charlie Kirk, but most miss the point. The point is there's a stronghold serving to separate my brothers and sisters in Christ and that is exalting itself against the knowledge of God. Feel whatever you want about me or what I've written but I'm telling you directly that my heart is to enjoy a fuller communion together with you in God through Christ and to remove / lay down everything that hinders that.

One such thing is the division between white and non-white believers. Mr. Kirk espoused positions that dishonors and are deeply harmful to non-white believers. They are positions that many of us have long suspected white believers have. So, when white believers idolize Charlie Kirk as a symbol of Christianity, they implicitly (if not explicitly) endorse those positions. These suspicions are between us, keeping us at arms length, dampening our worship and diminishing our witness to the world.

Mr. Kirk represents a white, nationalist set of ideas presented as Christianity that are not Christianity. That's what I mean by he's "not a soldier of the faith" because what he fights for is not the unadulterated Gospel—no matter how much Scripture he uses (Galatians 1:6-9). What breaks my heart the most is that it lies on the heart of God. It casts suspicion on God—whether the God of Christianity shares Mr. Kirk's sentiments about them, whether He loves them, and whether they are welcome with Him.

I have no ill will toward Charlie Kirk. But there is a lie being told in how he's being presented, and I am confronting that lie with the truth. Charlie Kirk is not representative of God's love.

God loves you. Jesus gave His life to bring you into the family of God to the glory of God. Every nation, tribe and tongue are in that family (Revelation 7:9–10) and there are no step-children.

I am contending for the faith. I am not fighting against you. I am fighting toward you. If we can work through this, fight to remove what divides us (such as our politics), and keep the unity that Christ has already achieved, God will be glorified. That's what I'm fighting for.

I look forward to a day that any Christian can encounter another Christian anywhere and enjoy the full embrace of God expressed in Jesus Christ.

I love you.

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