With hundreds of thousands of ratings on YouTube, the video has very few dislikes, with nearly 153,000 for the message and only about 18,000 against it.As of Sunday night, however, comments have been disabled for the video. Jefferson Bethke repudiated those who used his video to criticize the Church, stating "The Church is His vehicle to reach a lost word. A hospital for sinners. Saying you love Jesus but hate the Church, is like a fiancé saying he loves his future bride, but hates her kids." Nevertheless, the author of the video stated that he wanted to expose the legalism prevalent in many houses of worship. The popular rapper Lecrae, on his Facebook, encouraged his fans to think about the video by linking an article titled, "Does Jesus hate religion? Kinda, sorta, not really" authored by Kevin DeYoung, who had since writing it, spoken with Jefferson Bethke about it and the video.