Charlie Kirk Was Not an Apostle

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Christians, I am one of those niggling Reformed Christians who believe that the office of Apostle has ceased. In that regard, I do not consider Charlie Kirk to have been an apostle. I also don’t consider you an apostle. And I don’t esteem myself an apostle. 

But I do believe that Jesus certainly intended for us to follow the examples of the Apostles, and to experience the same kind of reactions to our Christian lives lived in obedience; and I would be surprised if Charlie Kirk did not agree.

There are many passages in the Bible that we can cite in the aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Perhaps none are more appropriate, comforting and necessary than the tenth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew. 

I won’t reproduce Matthew 10 here, as you have (or should have) your Bible to consult. I will only say, that for those in the media and otherwise in the public eye, who are trying to make sense of it all, and who are asking questions about how we ought respond to not just Charlie Kirk’s murder, but to the uncivil discord of our society as a whole; go to Matthew 10. Do this, especially so, if you claim to be a Christian.

Professing Christian or not, if you are unable to understand how Matthew 10 relates to Charlie Kirk’s death, or how it relates to you, then all I can do is to refer you to another Bible verse, 1 Cor. 2:14.

Allow me to just list the (human-contrived) topical headings I find in this chapter in my Reformation Study Bible:

1. Jesus sends out the twelve apostles.

2. Persecution will come.

3. Have no fear.

4. Not Peace, but a Sword.

5. Rewards.

While none of us is an Apostle in the way of The Twelve, the words of Matthew 10 apply every bit as much to you and me as they did to Peter; Andrew; James, the son of Zebedee, John, his brother; Philip; Bartholemew; Thomas; Matthew; James, the son of Alphaeus; Thaddeus; Simon, the Cananaean; and Judas Iscariot (to be replaced by Paul).

Charlie Kirk was sent, and he went; persecution came; he had no fear; he loved Jesus more than family, or his own life; he took up his cross; he found his life, that he might lose it; he will by no means lose his reward.

I urge you to examine your own life, in the hope of making Charlie Kirk's epitaph your own.

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