Pastor Rob McCoy Reflects On Charlie Kirk’S Legacy
Pastor Rob McCoy has been in the headlines after delivering a stirring message at Charlie Kirk’s memorial, and he says the moment changed him. He shared a call to salvation with millions and then described a profound sense of calm. For McCoy, that peace felt unmistakably like God moving.
After the memorial, McCoy told reporters the experience left him in awe. “This is honest before the Lord — [it was] unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before,” McCoy said. “Sixty-one years on this earth, a total peace came on me.”
He called the chance to honor Kirk “probably one of the most amazing days” of his life and has framed the moment as more than personal grief. To him it feels like a spiritual crack in the world where people might now hear the Gospel. He’s honest about hoping pastors and churches will respond.
McCoy doesn’t just describe Kirk as an activist; he used biblical language to place Kirk in a longer story. McCoy said Kirk was a “modern-day Moses,” and then explained a pattern he sees in Scripture and in modern life. “Moses re-educates an entire generation of people who forgot who they were,” he said. “He says, ‘Look, your God is the God of the universe. He created the heavens and the Earth, He created you, He created marriage’ … and He starts to re-educate them.”
McCoy draws a line from Moses’s 40 years of guidance to what he believes Kirk was doing for a generation. He points to the Ten Commandments and long-standing moral anchors as the kind of instruction Moses restored. In McCoy’s view, Kirk’s work nudged young people back toward eternal truths that sustain free societies.
He broadened that claim with a blunt, prophetic image about what Kirk awakened. “This is Charlie re-educating America, telling these young people who had been enslaved in indoctrination camps of universities across America — they awaken to the realization that … this is the freest form of government ever designed on the face of the Earth — that only a moral and religious people can govern it,” McCoy said. “He awakens them to this thing that protects the freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, and they love him for it, and then they kill him.”
McCoy returned repeatedly to the rescue language. “Charlie got these kids out of slavery,” he said. “He brought them out.” He insists Kirk’s influence was spiritual as much as political, dragging young hearts back to a framework that allows faith and freedom to thrive. That link between civic engagement and conversion is central to McCoy’s reading of Kirk’s ministry.
He stressed that Kirk never hid his faith and saw politics as a door, not a destination. “Charlie never hid his Christian faith,” McCoy continued. He called politics an “on-ramp to a relationship with God” and urged churches to recognize that ministry can flow through unexpected channels. For McCoy, public square engagement opens people to deeper truths.
McCoy has watched how the aftermath of Kirk’s death has altered public impressions. Viral clips, he says, are shaping a new, softer image: “All of the sudden, they start to realize this guy was really sweet, and there’s something special about him,” McCoy said. “And then you start to realize he was unbelievably civil.”
He grieves but does not stop hoping, and his message ends on that note. McCoy sees this season as a potential revival, a time for churches to step up and meet people where they are. Whether or not leaders act, McCoy is convinced the moment has spiritual weight and calls for bold, faithful response.