Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

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New Horizons
1992
The Wembley gatherings expanded our vision way beyond
our own work. Reports of growth in South America, India
and Korea were staggering. We saw Chinese believers on
video, tearstained and passionate. Africans in their thousands
looked like fields of ripe wheat waving under God’s power. In
so many nations there was fervour, spirit, life.
In the light of this, Europe was a darkened continent, a
secular jungle. If Britain looked a little brighter, the flight
from the churches continued here unabated. And if North
America had its display of power, it lacked the purity of the
people’s movement that was sweeping the third world.
The West was in trouble. Whilst poor Christians were spiritually
rich, rich Christians were poor. In the global church,
pale faces now stood in the minority. Interest in church growth
soared as white westerners stooped to learn from their coloured
brothers.
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