Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
Afterword
by Roger Forster
‘Tax collectors can love tax collectors, sinners can love sinners’
says Jesus, and adds in Luke 6:32-34 ‘what grace (charis)
is that?’ The test of grace and of true discipleship is, Jesus
goes on to explain, to love those who are different from us.
Sadly, many who would claim Christ’s name as theirs have
abandoned the place of grace to criticise those who are different
from themselves. The Jesus Fellowship has often been
the victim of such brotherly intolerance and gracelessness.
This volume shows, and their leader has acknowledged, that
they have made mistakes. They have deserved censure and
also at times may have returned it. Which movement or denomination
escapes this charge? Christian history is an appalling
story of hatred, persecution and intolerance. Conquistadors,
inquisitions, burning of dissidents, drowning preachers,
vilifications in the twentieth-century press, litter the his-
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