Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
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Many felt a touch of God’s love. Not all were immediately
converted, but God responded to their openness. From the
hills that overlooked the festival one could see thousands of
searchers. So many were on a spiritual journey.
New Age seemed to mimic the charismatic movement. Here
were prophets, healers and counsellors; here too we could
find prayer and music, conferences and festivals; and, for the
radical element, simple lifestyle and community.
So many had a thirst for wisdom, a hunger for experience,
and a desire for a better world. We weren’t interested in simply
faultfinding. True, much was deception and seduction.
But among it all were kingdom seekers and God’s men of
tomorrow.
Our place was to respect, listen and look for common
ground. They counted creation as sacred. The world-denying
image that Christianity portrayed was not only sad but false.
Scripture placed earth on centre-stage as man’s first paradise
and, when renewed, his final destiny. It was this ache for
a lost Eden that motivated them, as I wrote in our revamped
Jesus Life magazine:
The vision of a Golden Age! How it captures the romantic, the
idealist and the radical. In its purest form it embodies the aspirations
of a man awakened to his fall; the quest for a lost innocence,
for social transformation, for an age of peace, for New
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We had what so many longed for; the hope, the promise
and the certainty of a golden age. We, if any, were the ‘people
of the rainbow’, the keepers of the keys. Where we stood on
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