Lecrae Follow

You might know Him
You might not like Him
You should, you should love Him
She's a building
Of beings being constructed
Christ is the Cornerstone
Foundation built on another
and you's a goin home
She's built on Him
Supported by Him
Conformed to Him
Now she's a body of bodies
who's transformed through Him
A temple that breathes
We are the halls
We are the floorboards or more
we are the walls
Manifold wisdom of God no longer a mistery
The church pinnacle of our salvantic history
It's a one flesh union homie
Triunion is glorified through our corporatized communion
Still, present reality is
She was born a casualty
Though She's made alive She's still affected by deprivaty
Once lived in sin and enslaved by her lust but,
folks catch her slippin and they turn away disgusted
She's a work in progress
Christ is the head of her
And He wash her clean with the words he done said to her,
Already pretty but really she's not dressed,
And sometimes she looks silly,
But she's far from a mess, yes
Please don't be dissin cause Jesus done paid a grip
And if you didn't then you should call her Misses.
I'm talkin bout the church

(Chorus) Yeah, I know she may look gritty
Her man come back she gon look so pretty
She's the church (she's the church)
You might see her actin crazy
Be patient with her though
Cause she's still God's baby
She's the church (she's the church)
Before you diss her
Get to know her
Jesus got a thing for Her
and He died just to show her
She's the church (she's the church)
She aint bricks and buildings
She all of God's people
Men, women, and children
We the church
Her name's ecclessia,
meaning the assembly
Bows to the Trinity
No other divinity
Body, family, and a community
She is all one,
But on Earth you see her in congregational small ones,
A microcosm or a small scale example,
But it is the church
Even though it's just a sample
Invisible, spiritual, physical, visible,
Not a brick temple, never that simple,
This is not a building,She is not bricks
She's a world-changer, but aint bout getting rich,
and perpetrating fakes cause a lot of folks to hate,
Plus her hands get dirty and her feet get scraped,
And sometimes her body parts start acting out of place,
Legs trying to be the arms, arms thinkin they the face,
But she'll never be replaced with a one-man-van or a small
taliban with nobody in command, yea!
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Now some don't get it so, they hate,
They say she's on a paper chase,
they say she's really fake,
So they gon start a ministry
so they can do the work,
But they dont understand how Jesus feels about His church,
and yet they make disciples,
got plenty conversions,
Take care of windows and orphans,
man they be workin,
None of them are churchin
No church structure
No elders and no discipline
They have no conductor
And they don't submit, but quite a few of em baptized
People, how I pray that you'd look at this thing from God's eyes
Take responsibility inside the whole counsel
Not just the area where you might have a mouthful
Who should folks submit to?
Who will conduct the discipline,
if excommuticated what body will they be missin then?
Look at Ephesians 4
Where Paul gets practical
1 Timothy and Titus if you thinkin' I'm irrational
Homie it's the church!
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Now I'm not sayin there's a perfect church out there man,
I'm not saying just run away and leave,
Some of y'all might have to wrestle with some churches
You know what I'm sayin?
But don't throw the baby out with the bad water man,
She the church man
And I aint dissin para churches or none of that,
I'm just sayin,have a love for her, the full counsel,
submit to em, run with em
Let's do it
We the church!