Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
COMMUNICATE!
Rufus asked Nathan and Phil to get involved but Nathan was
blowing hot and cold, afraid of being drawn in. A meeting
was arranged at the Farm but they turned up four hours late,
stoned out of their heads. They put a downer on the whole
thing. It was far too square and, besides, Nathan had his
musical career to consider. Rufus felt like strangling him but
swallowed a further dose of patience and humility. He remembered
a difficult young actor from the past.
Soon Noel was ringing up Phil with questions about the
latest music and fashions. ‘What exactly is Grunge?’ Noel
asked.
He saw Phil as a link with the youth culture. Saved or not,
Nathan and Phil were our men on the ground and in touch.
Phil gladly sent down tapes and articles. He even spent an
occasional night at the Farm, beating a hasty retreat back to
Nottingham in the morning.
One night Nathan was celebrating his seventeenth birthday
when Rufus and another Farm brother turned up. They
piled into the car and drove out to the Derbyshire hills. There
was a mad climb in the dark and, on the top of Black Rocks,
swept by a wild, chilling wind, Phil unburdened his guilt to
Rufus. As they prayed Phil broke down, found forgiveness
and was freed from a spirit of rejection.
This was his first touch of God and he ran down the hill
feeling like air. From then on his spirit began to come alive.
But there was no sudden clean-up. That summer Phil abandoned
himself to loose-living, wild parties and raves. God was
there too, waiting.
Nathan was equally wild and had left King’s House to live
with friends near Rugby. Noel stayed true to him through a
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