Charlie Kirk is a co-founder of Turning Point USA, serving as its executive director since 2012 (at the age of 18).
He is also the CEO of Turning Point Action, and Turning Point Faith, president of Turning Point Endowment, and a member of the Council for National Policy. That’s an impressive list of accomplishments for a young man only 28 years old, however there are other accomplishments much more noteworthy.
Charlie is a Christian, and in May 2021 Kirk he married Erika Frantzve, a conservative podcaster and christian businesswoman from Arizona.
According to a recent video podcast, after discovering this truth in the Bible, Charlie and his wife began keeping the Sabbath last year, and they keep it pretty seriously.
Charlie turns his phone off on Friday night and puts it in a drawer and it stays there until Sabbath is over. He also spends the time resting, reading the Bible, praying and writing. Sometimes they go for walks. He says the Sabbath day is ‘restorative’ and a gift to mankind.
Erika says “There is something very powerful about obedience to Christ and honoring God with the Sabbath.” She continues,
“There’s so much spiritual warfare is going on right now. It is palpable, you can feel it in rooms you walk into, when you're watching the news it is surrounding us and the only way to fight back is with God's Word. The only way to understand and make sense of it [life] is with God's Word and if you don't take time to literally quiet your mind from the noise of life you will be inundated. From news articles to press releases, to your friend doing something, your family member's not allowing you to come to the holidays or whatever. It's really something special to be aligned with the Sabbath and God's Word, to be able to just take the time to just breathe, cut out the noise and just be in alignment with the [Holy] Spirit and know what your role is in all of this.”
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And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 8:11).
