Fire in our hearts - The Jesus Army

19Jesus 841984‘Hey! You guys some bunch of dudes, or sommat?’We carried on singing, and watched the trouble brewing. A blacklad was being hassled, so we walked over and surrounded them.Did we start fighting? No! Singing! Singing about Jesus.‘Hey! C’mon, leave off, man! This nice guy owes me some notes,yeah, and he’s gonna be all right see! He’s just gonna hand methe notes.’ The guy was skint.We talked to them about Jesus. They weren’t interested. Christianitywas ‘no go.’ It didn’t work. They were black in a whiteworld. They were resentful and frustrated. Ten thousand wordsabout Jesus wouldn’t have made a scrap of difference. Theywere £15 short. Nothing had been given them but hurts. Therewas no way they’d forgive this man his debt.‘We’ll pay it for him!’ We offered them the money.‘Hey, you guys really are a bunch of nutcases. Look, this guyowes and this guy is gonna pay, right!’241