Grammy Award-winning Christian rapper Lecrae recently spoke to author, artist, and podcaster Jackie Hill Perry about her background, the hurts they’ve experienced in the Christian industry, and the importance of telling truth that’s grounded in Scripture. Perry, 34, appeared on the March 12 episode of “Deep End With Lecrae” for a frank, wide-ranging conversation about faith and ministry.
Both Lecrae and Perry experienced challenges early in life that led to rebellion as teenagers. In her 2018 book “Gay Girl, Good God,” Perry described how Jesus saved her and led her out of a same-sex lifestyle.
Jackie Hill Perry: Christians, as Ambassadors, Must Address Sexuality
When Lecrae asked if Christians should just “shut our mouths” about sexuality, rather than seem intolerant, Jackie Hill Perry replied, “I think all Christians are obligated and justified in saying something about sexuality just because first and foremost, we’re ambassadors.”
“That’s a part of the Great Commission, to teach people to obey all that God has commanded,” she said. “So I don’t think we should feel like, just because that’s not my struggle, I get to opt out of the conversation.”
For everyone, the “fundamental struggle” is sin, Perry added. “If we start to see that there is symmetry between [people’s] struggles, even in the distinctions, then maybe that would give us more courage to actually say something.”
Even while living a homosexual lifestyle, Perry knew it was “not right,” she told Lecrae. “Each girlfriend I had, I told them…‘You know we going to hell.’”
Regarding homosexuality, Perry said the bigger conversation is less about “parsing” specific Bible passages than about discussing “the lordship of Christ over the body. What does it look like to say that God made my body and therefore he has ownership on how we use it?”
