Charlie Kirk Platforms Lance Wallnau at TPUSA Faith Pastors Summit, San Diego — NAR/Seven Mountains Integration

At the TPUSA Faith Pastors’ Summit in San Diego, California, September 13–15, 2023, Lance Wallnau — the Seven Mountains Dominionism theorist and New Apostolic Reformation prophet-networker — appeared as a featured speaker on the same platform as Charlie Kirk. Wallnau’s official events page confirmed his 3:05 PM Thursday slot at the summit, organized by Kirk’s TPUSA Faith division. This is the earliest documented direct Wallnau-Kirk co-platform event at a TPUSA Faith venue and represents the on-record institutional integration of the NAR/Pentecostal track into Kirk’s coalition-building infrastructure.

What Happened / Key Facts

The September 2023 TPUSA Faith Pastors Summit in San Diego was the second annual iteration of TPUSA Faith’s flagship pastoral mobilization event (the first had been held in San Diego in August 2022). Per Lance Wallnau’s own event page, Wallnau was listed as a featured speaker with a Thursday afternoon slot. TPUSA Faith described the summit’s mission as supporting pastors who believe “liberty is God’s idea, not man’s” and who resist “letting culture in America dictate the terms in which the Church can exist.”

The Wallnau appearance was institutionally significant because:

1. Wallnau is the primary popularizer of the Seven Mountains Mandate — the NAR-derived theological framework holding that Christians must “take dominion” over the seven spheres of society (government, business, education, media, arts and entertainment, religion, family). He has been called “the father of American Dominionism” by the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty.

2. Kirk’s own theological mentor, Rob McCoy, had explicitly pushed Kirk toward Seven Mountains theology starting in 2019–2020. Per NBC News reporting, “Rob McCoy pushed Kirk to embrace a specific theology known as the Seven Mountains Mandate… Kirk’s views on the role of religion in politics really began to shift in 2020 after churches were forced to close due to Covid.” By platforming Wallnau — the ideology’s leading popularizer — at TPUSA Faith’s own summit, Kirk institutionalized what McCoy had introduced personally.

3. TPUSA’s organizational structure mirrored Seven Mountains categories: Turning Point Action (government mountain), TPUSA Faith (religion mountain), Turning Point Academy (education mountain), media operations (media mountain), campus chapters. The theological framework was not merely rhetorical but mapped to TPUSA’s operational divisions.

The Wallnau–Kirk partnership was formalized publicly in January 2024 when the Courage Tour launched — with Wallnau describing the arrangement: “We’re going to join Charlie, and Charlie’s joining with us.” But the September 2023 Pastors Summit represents the documented pre-Courage-Tour co-platform event at a TPUSA Faith venue that preceded that formal merger.

Kirk’s own framing of the religious mobilization project, delivered across TPUSA Faith contexts in 2023, carried explicit dominionist register: he described the church as needing to be “expansionist, to be in every single domain” — language drawn directly from Seven Mountains theology without using the term.

Why This Event Matters

This event is the earliest documented co-platform appearance between Charlie Kirk and Lance Wallnau at a TPUSA Faith venue, establishing the NAR/Pentecostal-track integration at the organizational level before the January 2024 Courage Tour formal announcement. For the Kirk-as-three-tracks-bridge thesis, it confirms Kirk was not merely rhetorically adjacent to the NAR/Pentecostal track but actively hosting its leading institutional figure on his own pastoral platform.

The NAR track is structurally the most consequential of the three because TPUSA Faith’s entire pastoral mobilization infrastructure — claiming 2,500 churches recruited to the “America First agenda” per Wallnau’s own statement — operates along NAR-adjacent theological lines. Kirk provided the youth-political infrastructure; Wallnau provided the prophetic-charismatic framing and the revival-meeting format that energized Pentecostal church networks the secular TPUSA brand could not reach directly.

Broader Context

Kirk’s Seven Mountains embrace came via two routes: Rob McCoy (personal theological mentor, Calvary Chapel pastor) and Sean Feucht (charismatic worship leader who joined TPUSA Faith in February 2023, running the Kingdom to the Capitol tour). The Wallnau appearance at the September 2023 San Diego summit added the NAR’s leading intellectual-popularizer to the TPUSA Faith platform. By 2024, Kirk would refer to Wallnau as “the face of Christian Nationalism” [per Wallnau’s own characterization of Kirk’s self-presentation], and Wallnau would describe Kirk as exactly that in public remarks.

Kirk regularly appeared on Kenneth Copeland’s Victory Channel FlashPoint alongside Wallnau — another venue for their recurring co-platform presence in the NAR network — though TPUSA Faith summits represent Kirk’s own institutional hosting of NAR figures rather than Kirk appearing in Wallnau’s venues.

Research Gaps

• Full speaker list from the September 2023 San Diego summit (current sourcing comes from Wallnau’s event listing; a full program would confirm which other NAR or Pentecostal figures appeared)
• Kirk’s specific remarks at this summit (TPUSA live-stream archives may contain footage)
• Whether Samuel Rodriguez appeared at any 2023 TPUSA Faith summit (he is confirmed for August 2025 Faith Forward)

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