Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
COMMUNICATE!
a world of videos and high tech computers. God communicated
visually; through creation, and in water baptism, oil
and wine. Christianity was full of visual symbols.
So we began to develop our media technology using film,
sound and lighting. Techno took us down two lines:
videographics and computerised music. John ‘Perceptive’ and
his boffs could handle the first. For the second we drew on
Jez who gingerly introduced Noel to a world of modern dance;
of jungle, rave, ambient and house music; of drum machines,
sequencers and samplers. Noel was interested, for he had
something (in the Spirit) up his sleeve.
We’d done prophetic drama many times now since we filled
Westminster Central Hall with smoke in 1989. The risk of
using drama was that a serious message could degenerate
into mere entertainment. It also took a lot of time in prop
making, organisation and rehearsal.
Our dramatic presentations needed refocusing to communicate
the gospel effectively. We’d gained new skills and better
equipment. We also wanted to harness the creative energy
of the youth. Was it time for a big project? A presentation
that would speak into the current mood?
The idea evolved of a multimedia event using videographics,
film, sound, light displays — the lot; powerful images showing
the beauty of creation and its devastation; sights that captured
the desperate need of humanity; songs that spoke of
God’s love; colourful celebrations of a new brotherhood. All
from the gut, raw and in tune with the cries of the people.
The vision caught on.
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