I Am Restored: How I Lost My Religion but Found My Faith

Much respect to Lecrae for keeping it real. Tbh I was one of the people that noticed he went a little off (we all do so no judgement) and had to unfollow him but I never write people off without hearing their full message so I pushed through and read his book. I felt like I was reading the inside of his personal journal more than an composed piece of literature…which is fine as long as you\’re expecting something raw though it seemed all over the place to read. He is vague about trauma, goes on a tangent about politics and racism and don\’t fully see to the objective to it besides him sort of rambling about his unraveling, and not to invalidate racism and his advocacy or heart but I think he needs to expand his horizons of perspective to truly heal that wound, and his view doesn\’t seemed to framed entirely by Bible although he has many valid points. He talks about his steps to healing but I think there he didn\’t seem clear enough in himself to write fully on it. The book wasn\’t very impacting for me other than I guess I appreciate his voice in regards to politics and racism just because I value other people\’s story. I relate a lot to not being able to relate to religion. Overall it was an okay book but I probably wouldn\’t read it again. His book references are on par though !

This was definitely a transformative book for me. It was very revealing of Lecrae and his life , even more so than his last book. It was also challenging as in it challenged me to do a lot of self reflection. This book grows compassion and builds up an understanding of what it means to truly be at the lowest of lows , still seeing that God can restore any and all things.

I adore Lecrae. His journey, his testimony, his triumph over addiction…but when he starts to praise Colin K and went on the unnecessary tangents of politics etc…I couldn\’t finish it. I wanted to read this book because Ive listened to his music for years and years, and his gift for spinning truth into lyrics is unmatched in a lot of hip hop especially Christian hip hop. But I was not expecting to be lectured on his political stance or why Obama is so great and Trump is so terrible. All of that could have been left out. Disappointed.

Lecrae is an excellent writer who speaks not only of his own powerful testimony of one called, used, and held by God but as someone who has been able to examine the Christian faiths greatest commandment to love God and our neighbor from outside of the lens of white American cultural Christianity. He does this by chronicling his own walk through a crisis of faith and battle with depression. The companion docuseries The Road to Restoration on YouTube is also excellent. I left this book challenged in many ways. Thank you for writing it.

I appreciate addressing the trauma and healing as well as the transparency in the valleys that he had to go through. The politics, race, always capitalizing the word black but the word white always lowercase speaks volumes. These two words in the english language are never capitalized unless of course the sentence starts with them. I wish I could recommend this book but I just can\’t, racism is not a one sided issue and this book left me feeling like he is racist.

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