Fire in our hearts - The Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTSCOMMUNICATE!By this time I was between the millstones. I’d moved toOxford full of vision and expected God’s glory to follow myministry. I wanted to call the new place ‘Shekinah House’.‘Crucifixion House would be more like it,’ retorted Noel. Hewas right, of course. God’s agenda of humbling proud leadersgraciously took me in. Desolation and inadequacy clippedmy wings. I forsook my crumbling celibate commitment, relinquishedall my apostolic aspirations and came home witha broken heart.More serious was the situation with the critics. The boil ofcynicism seemed to be growing. Noel’s interest in the ‘propheticmovement’ did little to please them. During the MayFestival we listened to a tape about the ‘Kansas City prophets’with their uncanny words of knowledge and predictionsof fireballs of revival falling on London.When Roger Forster went to see Paul Cain, Paul prophesiedover him: ‘There’s a breakthrough like you’ve never dreamedof. God’s new thing is coming to England, and he’s going tocall it his strange act. It is going to be revolutionary.’Though we couldn’t approve of everything we heard aboutthem, these men did bring a timely emphasis on the propheticdimension — especially as it related to purity in the church.Amongst us things came to a head. During the festival someof the community stalwarts stood at the back of the marqueeor disappeared into the grounds. It was all too much; all thisbopping to the beat and falling around!‘What’s Zion coming to?’ they murmured. ‘Spiritualitymeans holiness and discipleship, not a load of circus dramatics.’322