Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
AWAKE O ZION!
to film a documentary on how The Lord Took Hold Of Bugbrooke.
Community was in vogue at this time and a team from
Redeemer Church arrived in England. There were many ventures
in communal living and some declared that this was
God’s contemporary word to the church.
At Argyle Street, conditions were primitive. Victor went to
live there for a few days and insisted they make no special
provisions for him. They didn’t. When he arrived Ralph had
ripped out the kitchen and Victor helped wash up in the bath.
Floorboards in the lounge were missing, windows were out
and the holes covered with sacking. Jess and French Mary
cooked chapatis over an oil stove in the lounge and they all
sat round on milk crates and chairs from the tip!
Victor sat down to table. They thought it was marvellous —
this straight coming to live with them and share their brown
rice! They hugged him and welcomed him home. Rufus’s
bright eyes fixed on Victor, looking for some fatherly lead.
‘Well,’ coughed Victor, ‘let’s say grace.’
‘What an amazing idea!’ they thought. Alan grabbed his
busking guitar. Rufus fetched his bongos. The rest reached
for spoons, pans, teapots — anything. As the half hour ‘jamming’
session took off, several of them sang their heart out
spontaneously while the rest accompanied on the cutlery.
Victor enjoyed this ‘psalming’ and felt years younger.
After the meal they sat round talking. Some of it was hilarious.
Alan and Rufus were great extroverts. Then the music
session took off again with great gusto and shouts of ‘Glory!
Praise the Lord!’
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