Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
CITY ON A HILL
surprises of the Holy Spirit? ‘Things have become routine,’
wrote Mike ‘Rockfast’ in his diary. ‘We have almost succeeded
in eliminating the unpredictable and taming the Holy Spirit.’
We put on a brave face. People learned the ropes and were
loyal. But there was unreality. Also some of the originals like
Paddy, French Mary, and Alan had found the going tough.
Paddy and his family had left the church, Mary had split off
for a long while, and Alan and his family, though still loyal
members of the church, had moved out of community.
The church had moved deeper since the early days but somehow
we had ‘matured’ out of praise, and the innocence of
first love was tarnished with self-righteousness. We needed a
touch of the divine, the supernatural.
Mike ‘Rockfast’ expressed his feelings as he wrote short
stories about the ‘little people of Kingdomland’. The children
at Vineyard loved them, but they carried a serious message.
The tale of ‘The Great Dam’ was prophetic as the sudden turn
of events amongst us was to prove.
To start with it was just an idea.
‘Why don’t we build a dam across Eternallife River? Then we
can make it go wherever we want it to!’ They got to work with
plans and diagrams. At one time you would have seen bands of
merry little people singing and dancing in the morning sunlight
as they drank from the river and gathered fruit from the hedgerows.
But now they were far too busy.
Soon the dam was finished and they were proud of their work.
Even visitors from Sinfulgloom came to admire it. The little people
settled down to cultivate their own plots, and were glad
they didn’t have to dance to the river any more. So they all got
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