Lyrics The Church I Grew Up In (Intro / Live).lrc Tasha Cobbs Leonard
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[ar: Tasha Cobbs Leonard]
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[ti: The Church I Grew Up In (Intro / Live)]
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[00:02.37]When I was ten years old
[00:04.66]My father was called to lead a ministry to start a church
[00:09.34]And we started in a little small town
[00:11.46]It probably was
[00:13.01]How many people live in the script, babe?
[00:16.56]Maybe 450
[00:19.08]Four hundred and fifty, not four hundred and fifty thousand
[00:22.16]Four hundred and fifty, okay
[00:25.15]And there was this building
[00:26.63]We were in an organization, and they gave him this building
[00:29.74]That when we pulled up
[00:32.70]My mother’s kind of petty y’all
[00:35.08]She was pretty much like, “Oh yeah, they can tear this down”
[00:40.04]Yeah, this is, we need to go back to Jesus
[00:44.19]But my father
[00:46.13]He looked at this dilapidated building
[00:49.58]It didn’t have bathrooms
[00:51.41]It didn’t have offices, no, no windows
[00:57.16]He looked at it and he saw a promise
[01:01.05]He saw a vision
[01:03.56]And, um, I remember coming home every day from school
[01:07.62]They would reroute us coming home from school
[01:09.85]And send people to come pick us up from school
[01:11.73]And drive us over to Scriven for months
[01:14.42]For months, we would do this
[01:15.74]And we would do our schoolwork
[01:17.91]My father was a carpenter
[01:18.90]And we would do our schoolwork, as they would build this church from nothing
[01:23.91]Making it into a sanctuary
[01:27.32]And I remember him building the doors
[01:30.03]And Installing windows, and creating a bathroom
[01:34.09]Creating a fellowship hall
[01:36.78]The sanctuary is at about 50 people, maybe
[01:40.77]And I remember him
[01:41.65]Some days, we would commute from school
[01:43.30]When my father had, like he would wear
[01:45.73]Like robes or blankets over his head
[01:48.04]And then he would be laying in the floor
[01:50.46]Praying in the floor with a… robe of clothes
[01:55.79]He would be clothed over his head
[01:58.18]Praying for the power of God to meet His people
[02:01.10]We started with seven
[02:03.19]Seven adults and seven children
[02:07.16]And I remember us being in Bible study
[02:10.34]And people would be delivered and set free
[02:13.30]We would come in and we have moments of prayer
[02:15.49]With seven people
[02:17.13]That God, would you create something that changes lives in this room?
[02:21.10]And again, as a ten-year-old girl
[02:22.67]I’m watching because my father, Bishop Murphy tells us all the time
[02:27.29]That “Much is taught, but most is caught
[02:30.37]And I was catching intercession
[02:33.19]I was catching how to invoke the presence of God
[02:37.94]And how to invoke a move of God
[02:40.40]That’s the church I grew up in
[02:43.21]And God’s church is still alive today
[02:47.09]I said, God’s church is still alive today
[02:52.91]The miracles I saw then
[02:55.12]It gave me the faith to believe in the miracles that God is doing now
[02:59.90]God’s church is still alive
[03:01.53]This song is called, “The Church I Grew Up In”
[03:05.15]Year of Release: 2022