My daughter has never known a day without pain. Her disabilities made her an outcast. The youth group was no exception. When she was in the pit of dispair she was inspired by this young rapper named Lacrae who came to her youth group. She was so excited about his CD and played it over and over. The commitment and genuineness that she saw in Lacrea and heard in his lyrics pulled out of her dispair that had been deepened by church hurt. The funny is that she did not like rap before she met Lacrae and complained when I played it.
You are a blessing Lacrae and I have never forgotten how you showed love to a disabled girl who felt unloved outside of her family. I have been praying for you and look forward to the day I meet you - here, there, or in the air.
This is a beautiful interview. God loves us, he is with us in every storm! Don’t allow religious people to condemn you, God will meet you right were you’re and do the perfecting.
❤I am so grateful for the contributions you have been able to bring to the body of Christ. I am praying you have a radical encounter with God in the mighty name if Jesus,amen.
Man I can relate to this strongly. Kinda scary how similar. So grateful he had the courage to be so transparent about this. Always have and always will respect this brother. Fr Fr. 🗣💯
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I can tell it took alot to speak on. I been following lecrae for awhile I seen videos on TH-cam of people trying to so call expose him seeing stuff like that and dealing with other stuff can lead u into a dark place we even seen Jesus get so depressed he had to go and pray as Christians we must love not hurt people no matter their lifestyle we still show our love....
Very interesting. This confirms what many have known for years. Lecrae has been backslidden and it’s shown in his music. It’s sad that people were being religious in the song Background, because that was an amazing song, but I believe this shows a greater place where Lecrae has been living for the worlds acceptance. Wasn’t it Lecrae who said, “ If you live for their acceptance, you’ll die from their rejection”? I’m glad he is finally confronting some of these things and my prayer is that he truly comes out of it with more faith and power to overcome than before. God bless.
So Lacrae keeps telling the same story over and over again. So what!! Who cares! It is HIS story. He has learned things from his story. He has helped others from his story. What is wrong with people? What is wrong with remembering the dark chapters in people's lives and reporting how the Lord led them out of there? Where is your compassion. Speak less and listen more!
Listening to Lecrae really helps us understand the lukewarm American church. It also helps put into perspective what it means to be a cultural victimized christian instead of a born again individual that walks in the power of God. I used to dislike the testimony and the attacks against the church from him and camp and i still do, but now i'm beginning to understand that he represents a vast majority of the American church that can be categorized as victims, lacking of identity, religious, unsaved, lacking discipleship and etc. We might not be able to reach and impact Lecrae but there are people like him in our communities that we need to disciple and/or share the gospel with. Anyone that reads the bible and has discernment knows that Lecrae needs Jesus. Pray for the guy
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. 1 John 2:15-17 KJV
Okay, no one is going to deny Lecrae's experience, but it's funny how he continually keeps talking about "church hurt" in interviews, songs, etc. Listen, I don't know which church "hurt" him, but not all church congregations are trying to hurt their members. And you can't take your experiences and paint a broad brush about the church of Christ as a whole, because Christ is the head of the body, which is the church (Ephesians 1:22-23, Colossians 1:18). As a Christian you can't have this attitude that you love Christ, but you bad-mouth His church all the time. In addition, not all criticism is self-righteous. Lecrae has been saying double-minded things for years (James 1:8 warns against this) in his songs, interviews, etc. When other Christians rightly critique his views against scripture, they find it faulty. Yet this bothers him because he's been abandoned in the past and he can't take criticism? So this leads him to drink and do drugs? And now he subtly justifies it by saying it was his past and "church hurt?" Not once did I hear in this testimony that he repented to the Lord for his sinful actions (think 1 John 1:9 or Psalm 51:1-4). All Christians struggle, but part of the Christian struggle can be our own doing. Whether Lecrae didn't have proper discipleship or he was just too busy being a rap star, he either wasn't properly taught how to apply God's Word to his life in a more consistent basis. You can't always paint yourself as a victim and make your past experiences and the church the villains. As a grown man who drank for over twenty years (as well as dabbled with some drugs and was a thief), the thing that helped me (and still helps me) with my struggles is the truth of 2 Corinthians 5:17 and Romans 6:1-14. We're not always going to obey God's Word perfectly, but we can obey it consistently by the leading of the Spirit and the truth of God's Word. My suggestion for Lecrae is for him to get out of the spotlight and stop being a "celebrity" Christian who talks like the secular celebrities. They talk about their drinking, drugs, partying, and bad life choices as if they can't help it, and guess what? they can't because they're slaves to sin until they trust Christ (and he sets them free per John 8:34-36). Yet Lecrae talks just like them as if sin rules in his body. No, renew your mind daily and present yourself a sacrifice unto God (Romans 12:1-2). God can certainly help you overcome, but stop making it seem like your past events and people in the church are the ones causing all your pain. While others can hurt you, sometimes you need to examine your own sins before publicly bad-mouthing others about how they "hurt" you.
@UC8hf54IZnX_V5TjFHesjVfA First of all, everyone experiences some type of hurt from church members. Lecrae's situation isn't unique, but how does he handle it? This isn't the first time he's gotten on social media or made a song bad-mouthing what the church did to him. At some point you have to forgive and stop bringing it up. That's what the Bible says in Ephesians 4:32 and Colossians 3:13). Second, you think I have lack of compassion for his situation, but you're wrong. What I have a problem with is him emphasizing the church "hurt" and his past experiences over his own sins. Drinking and doing drugs is sinful; it hurts him and others. And if you read my comments carefully, I drank for twenty years, so I know all about it from experience. And I have come from a broken home and am twenty years older than Lecrae. There has to come to a point where we confess our sins (1 John 1:9 and Psalm 51:1-4) and then not keep bringing up what someone did to us to justify our own sinful actions. So he can say their "storms of lives" brought on by ourselves, others, and a broken world, but I notice the large percentage of his "storms" are blamed on others. That's not me saying that, that's him, and that's not right. Third, it's funny how everyone tells me to listen more when I disagree with another person Biblically. I have listened to him plenty of times on social media, and what he says doesn't always line up with scripture. I am supposed to search it and study it (Acts 17:11, 2 Timothy 2:15) to line up what he says with it. If he says something Biblical or truthful, that is fine, but if he starts bad-mouthing the church in a general way (the way he frequently does publicly), then that needs to be corrected. There are thousands upon thousands of churches all over the world, yet he makes no distinction between one or two churches that may have hurt him compared to many that haven't done anything to him. It is a logical fallacy known as a sweeping accusation. And finally, isn't it illogical to say everyone should listen to Lecrae, but someone else's voice is unimportant because we're not Lecrae or we disagree with him? That is a logical fallacy as well. I could tell you the same thing about speaking less and listening to me more as well. You may think I'm being harsh towards Lecrae, but in the guise of playing the victim card he's actually being harsh to the body of Christ that he professes to be part of, because that is the church (which Christ is the head of according to Colossians 1:18). So before you go saying I'm judging Lecrae, know that you're judging me as well. If it's wrong for me to do it, then you shouldn't do it either, right?
Thank you for writing what I have been thinking. At some point I pray that he gets it. The Bible tells us in Hebrews that no discipline feels good at the moment but it’s for our benefit.
This is my advice to everyone who cares to liaten - Grow up! Enough of baby Christianity. There's a place for that at the beginning, but you still can't remain a baby after 10 years? Can you?
My daughter has never known a day without pain. Her disabilities made her an outcast. The youth group was no exception. When she was in the pit of dispair she was inspired by this young rapper named Lacrae who came to her youth group. She was so excited about his CD and played it over and over. The commitment and genuineness that she saw in Lacrea and heard in his lyrics pulled out of her dispair that had been deepened by church hurt. The funny is that she did not like rap before she met Lacrae and complained when I played it.
You are a blessing Lacrae and I have never forgotten how you showed love to a disabled girl who felt unloved outside of her family. I have been praying for you and look forward to the day I meet you - here, there, or in the air.
Background great song putting Him first
This is a beautiful interview. God loves us, he is with us in every storm! Don’t allow religious people to condemn you, God will meet you right were you’re and do the perfecting.
❤I am so grateful for the contributions you have been able to bring to the body of Christ. I am praying you have a radical encounter with God in the mighty name if Jesus,amen.
Man I can relate to this strongly. Kinda scary how similar. So grateful he had the courage to be so transparent about this. Always have and always will respect this brother. Fr Fr. 🗣💯
Hey, let us know if there's something we can be praying about. You can respond here, or there's a prayer request page on our website where you can know that there's a prayer team battling for you
I can tell it took alot to speak on. I been following lecrae for awhile I seen videos on TH-cam of people trying to so call expose him seeing stuff like that and dealing with other stuff can lead u into a dark place we even seen Jesus get so depressed he had to go and pray as Christians we must love not hurt people no matter their lifestyle we still show our love....
Jesus prayed. I think this dude should also go and pray and stop acting like worldly people who don't know where to channel their difficulties.
I see everything in these comments but love! It's sad and sickening! Lord help us!
salute my brother Amen.
This was so good and encouraging! Thank you for this interview
So glad this was encouraging to you!
Very interesting. This confirms what many have known for years. Lecrae has been backslidden and it’s shown in his music. It’s sad that people were being religious in the song Background, because that was an amazing song, but I believe this shows a greater place where Lecrae has been living for the worlds acceptance. Wasn’t it Lecrae who said, “ If you live for their acceptance, you’ll die from their rejection”? I’m glad he is finally confronting some of these things and my prayer is that he truly comes out of it with more faith and power to overcome than before. God bless.
I pray for you brother 🙏
Amen
Nvr knu he got backlash 4 "background." Who else u think he was talking bout?
So Lacrae keeps telling the same story over and over again. So what!! Who cares! It is HIS story. He has learned things from his story. He has helped others from his story. What is wrong with people? What is wrong with remembering the dark chapters in people's lives and reporting how the Lord led them out of there? Where is your compassion. Speak less and listen more!
Amen 💯
Listening to Lecrae really helps us understand the lukewarm American church. It also helps put into perspective what it means to be a cultural victimized christian instead of a born again individual that walks in the power of God.
I used to dislike the testimony and the attacks against the church from him and camp and i still do, but now i'm beginning to understand that he represents a vast majority of the American church that can be categorized as victims, lacking of identity, religious, unsaved, lacking discipleship and etc. We might not be able to reach and impact Lecrae but there are people like him in our communities that we need to disciple and/or share the gospel with.
Anyone that reads the bible and has discernment knows that Lecrae needs Jesus. Pray for the guy
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
1 John 2:15-17 KJV
Okay, no one is going to deny Lecrae's experience, but it's funny how he continually keeps talking about "church hurt" in interviews, songs, etc. Listen, I don't know which church "hurt" him, but not all church congregations are trying to hurt their members. And you can't take your experiences and paint a broad brush about the church of Christ as a whole, because Christ is the head of the body, which is the church (Ephesians 1:22-23, Colossians 1:18). As a Christian you can't have this attitude that you love Christ, but you bad-mouth His church all the time.
In addition, not all criticism is self-righteous. Lecrae has been saying double-minded things for years (James 1:8 warns against this) in his songs, interviews, etc. When other Christians rightly critique his views against scripture, they find it faulty. Yet this bothers him because he's been abandoned in the past and he can't take criticism? So this leads him to drink and do drugs? And now he subtly justifies it by saying it was his past and "church hurt?" Not once did I hear in this testimony that he repented to the Lord for his sinful actions (think 1 John 1:9 or Psalm 51:1-4).
All Christians struggle, but part of the Christian struggle can be our own doing. Whether Lecrae didn't have proper discipleship or he was just too busy being a rap star, he either wasn't properly taught how to apply God's Word to his life in a more consistent basis. You can't always paint yourself as a victim and make your past experiences and the church the villains. As a grown man who drank for over twenty years (as well as dabbled with some drugs and was a thief), the thing that helped me (and still helps me) with my struggles is the truth of 2 Corinthians 5:17 and Romans 6:1-14. We're not always going to obey God's Word perfectly, but we can obey it consistently by the leading of the Spirit and the truth of God's Word.
My suggestion for Lecrae is for him to get out of the spotlight and stop being a "celebrity" Christian who talks like the secular celebrities. They talk about their drinking, drugs, partying, and bad life choices as if they can't help it, and guess what? they can't because they're slaves to sin until they trust Christ (and he sets them free per John 8:34-36). Yet Lecrae talks just like them as if sin rules in his body. No, renew your mind daily and present yourself a sacrifice unto God (Romans 12:1-2). God can certainly help you overcome, but stop making it seem like your past events and people in the church are the ones causing all your pain. While others can hurt you, sometimes you need to examine your own sins before publicly bad-mouthing others about how they "hurt" you.
Wow. SMH.
@UC8hf54IZnX_V5TjFHesjVfA First of all, everyone experiences some type of hurt from church members. Lecrae's situation isn't unique, but how does he handle it? This isn't the first time he's gotten on social media or made a song bad-mouthing what the church did to him. At some point you have to forgive and stop bringing it up. That's what the Bible says in Ephesians 4:32 and Colossians 3:13).
Second, you think I have lack of compassion for his situation, but you're wrong. What I have a problem with is him emphasizing the church "hurt" and his past experiences over his own sins. Drinking and doing drugs is sinful; it hurts him and others. And if you read my comments carefully, I drank for twenty years, so I know all about it from experience. And I have come from a broken home and am twenty years older than Lecrae. There has to come to a point where we confess our sins (1 John 1:9 and Psalm 51:1-4) and then not keep bringing up what someone did to us to justify our own sinful actions. So he can say their "storms of lives" brought on by ourselves, others, and a broken world, but I notice the large percentage of his "storms" are blamed on others. That's not me saying that, that's him, and that's not right.
Third, it's funny how everyone tells me to listen more when I disagree with another person Biblically. I have listened to him plenty of times on social media, and what he says doesn't always line up with scripture. I am supposed to search it and study it (Acts 17:11, 2 Timothy 2:15) to line up what he says with it. If he says something Biblical or truthful, that is fine, but if he starts bad-mouthing the church in a general way (the way he frequently does publicly), then that needs to be corrected. There are thousands upon thousands of churches all over the world, yet he makes no distinction between one or two churches that may have hurt him compared to many that haven't done anything to him. It is a logical fallacy known as a sweeping accusation.
And finally, isn't it illogical to say everyone should listen to Lecrae, but someone else's voice is unimportant because we're not Lecrae or we disagree with him? That is a logical fallacy as well. I could tell you the same thing about speaking less and listening to me more as well. You may think I'm being harsh towards Lecrae, but in the guise of playing the victim card he's actually being harsh to the body of Christ that he professes to be part of, because that is the church (which Christ is the head of according to Colossians 1:18). So before you go saying I'm judging Lecrae, know that you're judging me as well. If it's wrong for me to do it, then you shouldn't do it either, right?
True talk Eric Smith
Thank you for writing what I have been thinking. At some point I pray that he gets it. The Bible tells us in Hebrews that no discipline feels good at the moment but it’s for our benefit.
That's Godly wisdom. We simply must step aside and let Jesus be the King of our life. We must forgive - if we really have been forgiven.
This is my advice to everyone who cares to liaten - Grow up! Enough of baby Christianity. There's a place for that at the beginning, but you still can't remain a baby after 10 years? Can you?
This guy is lukewarm