Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
NEW GENERATION
Steve ‘Capable’ and his London team were putting this into
practice at ‘Heaven’, a famous West-End club. The manager
liked the ‘footwashers’, as he called them, and often led them
out of the queue and escorted them in like kings. Once on the
dance-floor the Jesus team generated a lot of energy, loving
people, handing out red crosses or grapes and praising God
‘in the midst of Babylon’.
One night Tony, a Jamaican from Battlecentre, was dancing
up front when there was a sudden hush. Tony took the moment.
‘Who’s in the house?’ he shouted.
‘God!’ they all cheered. ‘God is in the house!’
The DJ smiled.
That Spring the BBC showed a documentary about the Jesus
Army. Brothers in Arms focused mainly on the Farm and
their evangelistic exploits with the homeless in London. Despite
our initial misgivings, it gave a pretty fair, though selective,
portrait of our church and its work. Some came to join
us in community as a result of seeing the film. Many others
expressed their appreciation of what we were doing.
Positive media coverage was helpful but we found God reaching
many people through more supernatural means.
Sonja worked as a medical officer in London. She told us
how she was attending a patient after an operation when he
had a sudden heart attack. As the nurses rushed out for the
resuscitation trolley Sonja felt the Spirit’s nudge to look at
his arm. He wore an African wristband. She removed it and
prayed against a spirit of witchcraft. Immediately the blood
pressure normalised and he recovered. Later the man told
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