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The Good News Movement: ‘Hope for America’ Event Comes to Utah

Followers of Jesus moving in faith delivering the Gospel to a troubled world

By Alex Murashko

The day after Charlie Kirk’s murder more than two months ago at Utah Valley University, I did what I often do in the early morning. I walked into the local gas station convenience store, got a cup of coffee, and said hello to my overnight clerk friend. Our ongoing friendship includes my desire that he would come to know Jesus.

The first words out of my friend’s mouth that day as I walked into the store were: “Do you know Charlie Kirk?”

Prior to Kirk’s assassination and the immediate aftermath—strong reactions coming from opposite sides of the cultural and political chasm—my friend did not know Kirk. At that moment I realized that the impact of Kirk’s death included an immeasurable move of God.

That movement goes beyond the Christian apologist, cultural and political fireball, and martyred Charlie Kirk.

“I don’t understand how people can act that way,” my friend at the gas station said. He was referring to the fact that some from the Left and the lost were in essence echoing a “good riddance”-to-Charlie sentiment immediately upon his death. 

That sentiment still exists.

My reaction?

They hated Jesus, didn’t they?

No matter how shocking some of the reaction has been it shouldn’t come as a surprise.

Jesus said:

“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.

But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates Me hates My Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father. But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’ (John 15:18-25)


Despite the hatred. Despite current events in the world, there is a part of God’s church (followers of Jesus) who are moving confidently in faith. They are delivering the Good News to a troubled world. One example: Hope for America.

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On Sunday (Nov. 16), evangelist Greg Laurie will lead Hope for America, a Harvest Crusade event at Utah Valley University.

“Charlie wasn’t just a political commentator—he was a passionate follower of Jesus Christ,” Laurie stated recently.

In an interview Laurie had with apologist Frank Turek, Turek said, “Charlie knew politics and he knew its place. But his main focus was the gospel.” 

Kirk recognized that, though politics is important, it is not the most important thing, Laurie said. “I believe we’re living in the middle of a ‘Charlie Kirk Effect.’ In fact, his memorial service may have been one of the greatest days for the gospel in American history—millions of people heard it that day.”

Also, moving confidently in a faith in Jesus, Billy Graham’s grandson along with BGEA:

In His ‘Granddady’s’ Footsteps, Will Graham Delivers the Good News in Florida

Alex Murashko is a Christ follower, husband, journalist and writing team leader for Think Eternity, a site for powerful faith content to help you live the fulfilled life in Jesus. Murashko is also founder of Media on Mission.

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