It was then that his deconstruction ended and his reconstruction began.
“Deconstruction is the heart and soul of the mixtape! Church Clothes 4 has a lot of garnishes and side dishes, but deconstruction is the meat on a plate. My heart is bleeding out! You’re hearing everything I’ve been through and how I was able to rebuild on this particular song,” Lecrae said in a press release.
Lecrae spoke with ChurchLeaders earlier this year regarding his deconstruction and shared, “I would say the goal of a healthy deconstruction is reconstruction. When you find out you have mold in your house, you’ve got to tear it out. We’re not saying you break up the foundation. We’re not saying you take away the foundation, which for us, as followers of Christ, is Jesus Himself. We’re not saying we remove him, but we’re saying we’ve built a lot of things on the foundation of Jesus that should have never been. They’re more cultural. They’re more political. They’re more economical than they are biblical or Christian.”
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“So now it’s making people say, ‘I don’t even want to call myself a Christian, because every time I think of Christian, I think of all these political things and all these other terms,’ which is making people say, ‘I’m done with it,’” Lecrae continued.
Lecrae said, “I’m okay with a healthy deconstruction, which is one where the goal is to build back up. I want to build. But I’ve got to tear down all these things, because I don’t know where the mold is. So I know you guys think I hate church because I’m not going for a season, but I don’t know if that’s where I’m being triggered. So, for a season, I’m not going to go there. I need to figure out what this means and process it. I think that if we’re really serious about our faith, we are walking with people through that process.”
