Ladies and gentlemen I'd like to interrupt this album With a little bit of real talk We bout to represent the priesthood of believers It's your boy Sho Biz and Lecrae Yo let's do this dawg It goes one for the Father, two for the Son Three for the Spirit through Whom work is done Before He cracks the sky and our feet leave the dirt Let's go ahead and represent tha Church Wake up in the morning, and I hit my knees early Face to the floor, thinking I'm not worthy I'll do that Luke 9 thing, gotta bear my cross Team up with Lecrae, we gotta reach the lost I'm getting pounds from the church saying, Sho you've grown But don't get too proud, cause Sho is prone To lie and conceit while the spirit lies in defeat Gotta beat the flesh daily, cause dawg gotta eat Cause God's wrath is something we all gotta meet It don't matter if you Black, White, Jew or Greek The only way to avoid the doom and despair is if God asks Christ is He with you and He say (yeah) But on the contreezy my neezy it may sound easy But this living it out thing is hard, word to God (It's tha Church baby) not pews and steeples But those who shun evil, those Acts 2 people Not talking bout church mothers in funny hats But in the streets, even in the alley schooling cats Quoting many facts, death, burial, resurrection Get to know His atonement, He's coming back Forget 5 mics, I want 5 saved souls With self-control, taking the gospel across the globe (Say word Sho) that's word to the deacon, the pastor The building fund, and the choir's singing That's real talk, we do it all in His Name So how bout it, let's be a Church without blame A Church without vain, a Church without shame Ayo but who murdered Christ? In that we take claim We love the Lord for What He is, what He was We praise Him because What He did, what He does He gave His life ya'll And He did it for us And why He do it ya'll And He did it because We're tha Church We love the Lord for What He is, what He was We praise Him because What He did, what He does He gave His life ya'll And He did it for us And why He do it ya'll And He did it because We're tha Church It goes one for the Father, two for the Son Three for the Spirit through Whom work is done Before Christ come back to reign on earth Let's go ahead and represent tha Church I pick up the phone, it's Sho, talking bout it's a show I'm like, I can't go cause my dough on low But at a, quarter to four I got a knock at the door He got my ticket in his hands like you ready to roll? I'm like (yeah), it's so good to my system mayne It feel good to be a Christian mayne We got the same Spirit working within us We get excited when we think about the Lord Coming back to get us And what's, mine is yours, I know what's yours is mine Food, money, time or sixteen bars of rhyme It's like Acts 4:32, yeah Crae dirty too But tha Church keep Crae from looking like a worldly dude And I ain't talking bout the buildings and bricks I'm talking bout the men and women who be getting strict It's tha Church We love the Lord for What He is, what He was We praise Him because What He did, what He does He gave His life ya'll And He did it for us And why He do it ya'll And He did it because We're tha Church We love the Lord for What He is, what He was We praise Him because What He did, what He does He gave His life ya'll And He did it for us And why He do it ya'll And He did it because We're tha Church I was your everyday sinner, up in the club Sipping on (huh?) smoking on (what?) Straight from the suburbs but faking like a thug Don't mean to glorify it, it just is what it was Yeah you know me too, I was the same dude hustling The same one that clubbed for fun and loved lusting em The same little thief off of Scott street, ya watched me Probably hoped the cops would come and box me Till the Gospel offended me, gave me an identity A man with a hole, losing grip of his soul I was introduced to the Scriptures and Him who died I never saw a man cry, till he met Christ For me in '98 Christ became more than a name Conviction hit my frame, my heart was changed Like somebody hit the light switch inside of my brain And when I hit my knees to pray, it wasn't in vain I've been doing a lot of thinking and I had to invest In my soul, and all I had to do was say yes And ever since then I've been eternally secure And placed in tha Church all glory to the Lord We love the Lord for What He is, what He was We praise Him because What He did, what He does He gave His life ya'll And He did it for us And why He do it ya'll And He did it because We're tha Church We love the Lord for What He is, what He was We praise Him because What He did, what He does He gave His life ya'll And He did it for us And why He do it ya'll And He did it because We're tha Church It's the church baby We the church It's the church baby We the church It's the church baby We the church It's the church baby We the church It's the church baby We the church It's the church baby We the church It's the church baby We the church It's the church baby We the church