Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
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The lame, the sick, the dirty, the drunks,
The posh, the poor, the bad, the punks,
The tall, the short, the fat, the thin;
Anyone who wants can all join in.
And in they came: dear old John ‘Venerable’ dressed as a
vicar; Lionel wearing a dinner jacket and Marion in a gown,
Janie as a hippie, a sister on a stretcher, a traffic warden, a
lollipop lady, street kids tumbling in, a beggar and a bishop
— even the BBC — all joined in, till the stage was all life,
energy and colour. The audience was taken by storm. The
young lion had sprung into Cornhill. The revolution had begun.
The author of ‘Christian’ England predicted that ‘leaders, pioneers
and visionaries will be of the essence in the 90s’. 116
Alpha magazine too was urging us all in the new churches to
‘break the mould’. 117 By 1991 people in Britain were beginning
to realise that a giant had awoken in their midst — if an
article in Elle magazine was anything to go by:
Evangelicals are successfully tapping into a collective mood that
crosses all boundaries and satisfies the desire for spiritual absolutes.
Their campaign to win the nation for Jesus will be long
and arduous, and not without its casualties. But know this; in
the battle for souls, tomorrow belongs to them. 118
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