Brooklyn Tabernacle Pastor Jim Cymbala rebukes Christians celebrating Charlie Kirk’s assassination

I immediately thought Christian and celebration of murder are a contradiction. To even call someone a Christian who celebrates murder is strange.

I must confess that I grieve the passing of a good man far more than a criminal or predator upon society. And in movies, I confess that I've enjoyed watching many vigilante plots of bad people being killed by their victims. I guess I have some soft spot in my heart for justifiable homicide - even it crosses the line of murder - when it's done to evil people. God forgive me, I know that's not Christlike. But...

No sane, rational, half-way loving person can justify murdering someone just because they have different political or religious beliefs. We ALL have political and religious opponents, but obviously understand that societal laws are appropriate and necessary or we'd all be trying to kill each other. In this case, it's deplorable that any supposed Christians would hate Kirk so much as to celebrate his death, but such is the case for sure. There certainly are a large number of professing Christians with
misguided prioroties and values - evidenced not only by the Charlie Kirk incident, but by all of the controversial cultural issues plaguing our culture today.

This pastor is grandstanding. I haven't heard any Christians celebrating Kirk's death. Not jumping on the bandwagon to mourn a perceived political martyr isn't the same as celebrating somebody's death.