Petra Praise 2: We Need Jesus is the sixteenth studio album of the
Christian rock band
Petra and their second
praise album. It was released on February 18, 1997.
The album was released amidst some major line-up changes in the band, and it features contributions of several musicians. It's the first album to feature Lonnie Chapin on bass guitar, who would become the band's full-time bassist until 2001.
The music is a mixture of traditional and original praise songs with a rock style. It is considered to be more diverse musically than the band's first, straight forward hard rock, praise album. Most of the original songs were penned by band founder
Bob Hartman (except "Song of Moses" that was written by former keyboardist
Jim Cooper and well-known musician
Brian Wooten).