By Olivia Rondeau

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Blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted. That is true, and you can feel it here. The thing about Charlie’s message, I’ve thought a lot about it, and I’m trying not to be emotional, because in addition to everything else, he was a wonderful man and a decent man, and one of those rare people you meet who you just groove with in conversation and have these very intense conversations that you don’t stop thinking about, which is my experience with him. But the main thing about Charlie and his message, he was bringing the Gospel to the country, he was doing the thing that the people in charge hate most, which is calling for them to repent.

So how is Charlie’s message different? And Charlie was a political person who was deeply interested in coalition-building and getting the right people in office because he knew that vast improvements are possible politically, but he also knew that politics is not the final answer. It can’t answer the deepest questions, actually, that the only real solution is Jesus. And the reason – it’s really simple. Politics, at its core, is a process of critiquing other people and getting them to change. Christianity, the gospel message, the message of Jesus, begins with repentance.

Christianity calls upon you to change. Our core prayer given to us by Jesus, the Lord’s Prayer, demands that we forgive other people, but preceding that is a request for our forgiveness. In other words, forgive us our sins. Meditate on what we’ve done wrong, how we’ve fallen short, and then it becomes possible to forgive other people. That is a call to change our hearts from Jesus, and that is the only way forward in this country. That is the only solution to where we all know we’re going, and Charlie knew where we were going without that.