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We've Gotta Put Jesus Back
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Sep 30, 2026 updated
Bless This House album
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Song Meaning
Kurt Carr opens with a direct spoken introduction — 'I am a Jesus promoter' — before the song makes its whole argument in one repeated line: 'we've gotta put Jesus back, number one, that's where He belongs.' The plainness is deliberate; this isn't a song working toward a subtle theological point, it's naming a displacement directly and calling for a correction.
'Jesus is the way, Jesus is the way, Jesus is the only way to make it' echoes John 14:6's claim that no one comes to the Father except through him, repeated as a chant rather than argued as a proposition. Colossians 1:18's declaration that Christ should 'in all things... have the preeminence' sits behind the whole song's central demand — not just personal devotion, but actual priority, ranked first rather than merely present. 'Nobody more important than You' closes the song on the same insistence it opened with, refusing to let the repetition soften into background noise.
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[Spoken Intro:]
Everybody, I am a Jesus promoter.
I got a new song that says:
We've got to put Jesus back, make Him number one,
First in our lives; that's where He belongs!
[Verse:]
Oh, great church, mighty and strong
Go back to the values you were built upon.
Oh, brothers and sisters, come on, come on!
Remember we're not losers; we are the champions.
They took prayer out of the schools;
We shouldn't have allowed this!
Now they're even trying
To take Jesus out of Christmas!
[Chorus:]
Church, arise, arise and be strong.
We've gotta put Jesus back. [x3]
Number one: That's where He belongs!
Jesus is the way, Jesus is the way,
Jesus is the only way to make it.
Jesus is the way, and He will make us strong.
[Bridge:]
[Worship leader ad lib.]
We've gotta put Jesus back. [x8]
We've gotta put Jesus back, Jesus back.
We've gotta put Jesus back. [x3]
We've gotta put Jesus back, Jesus back.
We've gotta put Jesus back. [x3]
We've gotta put Jesus back, Jesus back.
We've gotta put Jesus back. [x4]
We've gotta put Jesus back.
Number one: That's where He belongs!
[Instrumental]
[Vamp:]
Oh... oh, Jesus,
Nobody more important than you.
[x6]
Nobody more important than you. [x4]
We've gotta put Jesus back.
We've gotta put Jesus back.
Number one: That's where He belongs!
[Ending:]
Oh... oh, Jesus,
Nobody more important than you.
[x3]
Nobody more important than you. [x6]
We've gotta put Jesus back.
We've gotta put Jesus back.
Number one: That's where He belongs!