“It’s our job to show them where forgiveness and love…just permeates and transforms everything,” he continued. “It’s almost as if people forgot they were ever folks who made poor choices.”
“If someone would have approached me when I didn’t know Jesus with the attitude of ‘what a dumb ignorant sinner you are…God’s gonna get you,’” Lecrae said, he might not have ever come to faith.
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Lecrae then shared the example of how Jesus witnessed to a woman caught in adultery, whom the Pharisees were about to stone. Jesus challenges her to “go and sin no more” but also “embraces her.” Lecrae said, “That’s how God functions. So why don’t we function like God? Why are we not imitating Jesus and following Christ in our examples?”
“I don’t like it when I see non-Christians being chastised with Christian belief,” he added. “They don’t subscribe to what you subscribe to. So how can you challenge them with that? They don’t even subscribe to the same book.”
Lecrae said that God is the only person who knows Lil Nas X’s motives. When Christians criticize Lil Nas X’s “Christian era” comments, Lecrae said they are acting like the older brother in the parable of the prodigal son.
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“People have a problem with grace,” he said, sharing about how he has been criticized for collaborating with secular rappers—specifically Big K.R.I.T. on the song “Mayday.”
“My heart’s desire was to build rapport and was to connect with them to show them the love of Jesus,” Lecrae said. “I’m not a pastor in a pulpit, bringing up somebody to preach a sermon and they don’t even know Jesus. I’m saying, ‘Hey, let’s have a conversation over a beat. And record it. And let the world listen to our conversation.’”
In the song “Mayday,” Big K.R.I.T. talks about his faith struggles. Lecrae described him as being vulnerable and honest. “It was a beautiful conversation over music,” he said. But “man, the Pharisees came out and ate this man alive,” calling Big K.R.I.T. a “sinner” and questioning why Lecrae would work with him.
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Big K.R.I.T. “deserved to be shown love and to be embraced” but instead was negatively impacted by Christians, Lecrae said. Big K.R.I.T. perceived the backlash against Lecrae as Christians “inadvertently telling him about his worth and his value.”
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