Fire in our hearts - The Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTSAWAKE O ZION!to move in unity as ‘one new man’ (Eph 2:15), we touched thevery heart of Zion.John and Steve were drawing the brothers together. Theywere all very real as they opened their hearts to each other,and discipled one another fearlessly. Above all, they madebrotherhood enjoyable.At New Creation Hall, Pete was producing paintings of communitylife and writing songs from the Scriptures — ‘We knowlove by this, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought tolay down our lives for the brethren’ (1 John 3:16).Wesley’s hymns also expressed our heart:Mollify our harsher will,Each to each our tempers suit...We valued individual character and refused the trend towardsunisex, which we saw as unbiblical and psychologicallyoff-beam. Equality between the sexes wasn’t the point.Rather, it was being the personality God intended. Womenbegan to enjoy their femininity more and developed a strongsense of sisterhood. Brothers found that their manly sharingproduced manliness and appreciated the friendship and realityof brotherhood. ‘As iron sharpens iron,’ said the wise man,‘so one man sharpens another’ (Prov 27:17).There were outward changes, too. Brothers lost their flowinglocks and some grew beards. Sisters let their hair grow.Biblically, it spoke of their ‘covering’ (1 Cor 11:3— 11). AtHarlestone Road the sisters converted their jeans into denimskirts. One sister felt the Lord telling her to get a dress, butcouldn’t afford one. Out of the blue her mother gave her £10.141