Charlie Kirk said, “My Call is to fight Evil and Proclaim Truth”
I feel the same way and created a website in 2020 for that reason.

Frank Turek, Charlie Kirk’s mentor on apologetics said it well, “If your pastor is not addressing the elephant in the room, find a different pastor”

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Eric Metaxas says in the “Letter to the American Church” that the American church has been complicit in the rise of harmful ideologies like Marxist atheism, abortion, and transgenderism by remaining silent, much like the German church was silent during the rise of Nazism.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, “Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.”

Many in church leadership insist on silence so as to not offend many ignorant people sitting in the pews who adhere to ungodly principles such as supporting candidates who adhere to the Democratic platform which has become so evil that you could say it was directly influenced by the devil. The first thing Jesus said was repent, so such church leaderships should repent of their silence. Many in church leadership seem more concerned about the comfort of those sitting in the pews than they are about confronting evil and sharing truth.

Heb 13:7 says, “Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.”
Why should we want to imitate cowards?
2Ti 4:3 – For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.

Will the millions of people sitting in the pews of churches whose pastors choose to be silent on cultural issues be found guiltless per Erwin Lutzer?

No, according to Erwin W. Lutzer, the millions of people sitting in the pews of churches whose pastors choose to be silent on cultural issues will not be found guiltless.
Lutzer, the former senior pastor of The Moody Church in Chicago, has long warned that the church’s failure to confront societal evils—such as the rise of totalitarianism, moral decay, and cultural Marxism—mirrors the German church’s inaction in the 1930s under Nazism. In his endorsement of Eric Metaxas’s 2022 book Letter to the American Church, Lutzer describes it as “a bucket of cold water thrown into the face of a sleeping church,” emphasizing the urgent need for believers to awaken and oppose encroaching darkness rather than remaining passive.
While Lutzer’s writings and sermons (e.g., in books like When a Nation Forgets God and The Church in Babylon) primarily target pastors and leaders for their “greater sin” of silence—arguing they betray their duty to shepherd the flock by avoiding “politics” or “worldly affairs” in favor of feel-good evangelism—he extends accountability to congregants as well. Drawing from biblical principles like Ezekiel 33 (the watchman who must warn the people or bear their bloodguilt) and Romans 1 (God’s wrath on those who suppress truth), Lutzer asserts that churchgoers share complicity if they tolerate or enable this silence. They are not mere bystanders; as part of the body of Christ, they must demand prophetic preaching, disciple their families in truth, and engage culture themselves—or risk divine judgment for aiding a compromised witness.
In essence, Lutzer’s message is clear: No one in the household of faith escapes responsibility. Silence in the face of evil implicates the entire assembly, and on the day of reckoning, passive pew-sitters will stand accountable alongside their mute shepherds for failing to be salt and light (Matthew 5:13–16). For a deeper dive, I recommend Lutzer’s sermon series on church complacency or Metaxas’s book, which Lutzer championed as a clarion call.