Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
NEW GENERATION
Rob was a good guy to be with (plus he had a car) and got
plenty of invites to parties, clubs and homes. His new mates
soon found he was a Christian, and Jesus Army to boot. That,
if anything, made him more popular. It was cool to have a
Jesus Army guy as a friend. By the time Rob invited them to
his own ‘party’ they were quite open to the idea. Up to twenty
would trail back to the Farm for supper after ‘Sunday Evening
at Spinney’.
One scene sprang out of the Irish Centre in Northampton.
There Rob, Nathan and crew met some lads who were into a
deafening sound-barrage called ‘thrash metal’. The musicians
began to find God and three were baptised. On Sunday nights
at Spinney the audience were treated to their contributions
set to Christian lyrics. Noel called them the ‘J Boys’, an improvement
on their former (unprintable) name.
One night Rob’s mates got him to light a candle to remember
a friend who’d died. As they prayed Rob sensed the presence
of the Holy Spirit. Now these weren’t born-again evangelicals.
But something was happening. God was there.
Increasingly these ‘modern believers’ were reaching out to
God. New age shops, with all their colour, fragrance and mystique,
were catering to a trend. But the real search was deeper
than any fad or philosophy. We were meeting people who really
wanted to know, who opened their hearts and who prayed.
God was responding too.
There was a move of the kingdom out there among the people.
THE JESUS EXPLOSION
The fervour that knows no bounds.
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