Fire in our hearts - The Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTSAWAKE O ZION!birth. Truth? We are naturally false. We are naturally superiorand selfish. Truth? We hate it! Knowing the truth aboutourselves can be awfully painful. Some of you are goingthrough it here as God’s searchlight explores the very fabricof your lives. You see, the truth of God is active in our hearts!The rigorous practice of truth!‘Brothers and sisters, Zion is the “city of truth”. Only truthwill be attractive to those who are searching for an answer.They are looking for a people of truth and equality.‘Dare we be that? Dare we set ourselves against the currentof the world? Dare we be a holy people? Dare you join usin what your heart so desperately longs for, but what yourflesh shrinks from? Jesus did it. He practised truth. He practisedlove. It brought the resurrection. But the cross camefirst. The rigorous practice of truth!’Noel’s voice had faded into a whisper.‘Brethren,’ he continued, lowering the book, ‘if you cannotreceive this here, you’ll never apply it there. This retreat isas close to community living with all its beautiful outflow aswe are likely to see for some time. With all the pressures onyou back home to conform to the world, unless you are preparedto be real now, the devil will lead you a dance.‘Now Os Guinness remarks that the early Christians faceda twofold cultural threat. They acknowledged neither the Lordshipof Caesar, nor the wisdom of the Greeks: “They refusedto be classified. They were neither Romans, nor Greeks, norJews, nor Gentiles, nor masters, nor slaves, nor rich, nor poor.They were a healing community, they were one in Christ. Theywere a third race.” 37132