Lecrae on Why the Virtual Church Experience Is No Less Devout
In a time of quarantines and social distancing, the rapper ponders new ways to strengthen faith
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As told to Stacy-Ann Ellis
I was definitely a skeptic of Covid-19. SARS, MERS; I heard about it all before. You don’t feel like it’s going to touch your own backyard. It really wasn’t until some of my concerts started getting canceled and my business manager called me saying, “don’t panic” — and when someone tells you don’t panic, that’s the first thing you do — that I started freaking out. For a good 24 hours, I was in panic mode, but the best and easiest way to take care of my mental health, my holistic health, is to adjust and adapt to these new normals. The quicker you adjust, the easier it is to deal with all this chaos.
Now, due to social distancing, my family and I get together and take part in a virtual church service. To still have congregations come to church is irresponsible. That feels more self-serving than it feels like pastoring, shepherding, and caring for people. That goes back to Jesus talking about, what good does it do to pass a man who’s hungry and say, I’m going to pray for…
