Pastor at Prominent Evangelical DC Church Says Charlie Kirk Was a Negative Example of Christianity

Pastor at Prominent Evangelical DC Church Says Charlie Kirk Was a Negative Example of Christianity


Mike Kelsey — lead pastor of McLean Bible Church’s Montgomery County, Maryland, campus — argued during his Sunday sermon that people should not look to Charlie Kirk as a good example of what a follower of Jesus Christ should be.

McLean Bible Church is a five-campus evangelical congregation located in Washington, D.C., with reportedly over 10,000 members.

David Platt, who is the lead pastor of the entire church, received some blowback in 2019 from his politically mixed congregation when he prayed for President Donald Trump during a service at the location in Vienna, Virginia.

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On Sunday at the Montgomery campus, Kelsey started his remarks about Kirk appropriately enough, condemning the murder of the 31-year-old conservative superstar.

“As Christians, we should denounce any rhetoric that tries

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