“So the work needs to be done internally,” the “Reconstruction” artist explained. “I think there needs to be more leaders and teachers and pastors warning people about these false leaders and false teachers.”
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“But I also think [that] there’s a measure of mercy and patience that God has with people in the pulpit making a mockery and people outside the church making a mockery,” Lecrae said. This is not the opportunity for people to say, “This is why I don’t go to church,” he explained. Instead, it is an opportunity for people to say, “Well, I don’t want to go to a church like that.”
Lecrae used the example of a “filthy and dirty” soul food restaurant. Just because that particular restaurant is unclean, that does not make someone never want soul food again. “It makes you say, I’ll never eat at that particular soul food restaurant,” he said.
Lecrae named a couple of megachurches in the Atlanta area, where he lives, that are not like the ones depicted in Druski’s sketch.
“But there are some that are like that, and I think Druski is just reflecting that. So let’s not clutch our pearls. Let’s not get up in arms,” Lecrae encouraged. “Let’s be merciful, gracious, kind people. And let’s also tell our friends not to go to some of these terrible places.”
