Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
COMMUNICATE!
Glasgow and Manchester which produced their own homegrown
leaders. All this encouraged initiative.
Then there was the ‘Multiply Network’. Multiply was
launched as a new stream uniting Jesus Fellowship churches
with other groups with a similar vision. King’s Church,
Chatham, was one of our first open supporters and ‘friends’
who eventually joined us in Multiply. They also released a
few of their people to us who were eager for community. One
young family lived at Battlecentre for a while before heading
up our work in Brighton.
Many still came to us from far and wide hungering for a
Christian alternative. Cornhill Manor, (led by Pete the Dutchman),
had a European flavour and a daughter household in
Sweden. The Farm had members in Spain who were interested
in community. We were also friendly with a number of
community groups in Europe and one dynamic youth-church
in Germany, led by Walter Heidenreich, joined us in the Multiply
Network.
Relating to others was very healthy. Some of our senior
men spent more than one enjoyable afternoon with Tony
Morton and team from Southampton. We found Tony down to
earth, humorous and very brotherly. But he didn’t lack punch:
‘God uses zealous, idealistic, sacrificial people who are outspoken,
possibly obnoxious’ was one of his comments in Jesus
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We probably fitted that description! But we didn’t relish
isolation. It was encouraging to be invited to talk about our
work at London Bible College. We also spoke at Spurgeon’s
College where Steve ‘Capable’ and I bumped into Nigel
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