Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
COMMUNICATE!
sequences and hundreds of slides, statistics and newsreel
items. All had to be orchestrated through a relay of headsets.
As the deadline loomed, the autumn stress levels gave ample
opportunity for abiding in Christ. Talk about team effort!
One inspiration was to use a group of ‘searchers’ dressed
in brown hessian clothes that represented their various backgrounds.
A young couple who’d lived as new-agers in Cornwall
spent their spare evenings making hippie gear out of
sackcloth. Others created suits, African dress, even a bowler
hat and brolly, all out of sacking material!
When the big day eventually arrived, we all hit the ground
running. Wembley opened with a leaders’ breakfast and continued
through two long sessions of guest speakers, music
and sketches. After refuelling at teatime we fastened our
safety belts for four hours of non-stop, multimedia action.
Jesus Live was nothing if not a sensory experience. If the
theme was creation, the audience had to see, taste and smell
it as stewards passed round grapes and sprayed us all with
strawberry mist! If our worship was as ‘fragrant incense rising’,
they were there again, swinging some smoking objects
that looked decidedly Catholic. Boring it was not.
During the praise there was a mass distribution of fluorescent
yellow cloths and red crosses. Ultraviolet in the dark
not only highlighted an impressive praise wave and 2,000
glowing crosses but did amazing things for my white shirt!
But this was no mere extravaganza. There was tenderness.
Through deeply moving songs and images we felt, with the
searchers, the pain, the outrage and the shame. Rob sang
gently:
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