Fire in our hearts - The Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTSCOMMUNICATE!hair cut, take your earrings out, get a Cliff Richard smile.” Wesay it’s the heart that’s important.’ 114Charismatic worship had made some amazing inroads intothe churches yet the mood was too often white, western, middle-classand selfish. So many were good with the comfortable,but not so bright with the outsiders and rebels.During the 60s Jesus Movement in America many in thecounterculture found in Jesus their model revolutionary —the Messiah who kicked the old system and established thenew. Sadly few evangelicals were big enough to accommodatetheir unconventional zeal. Some of the hippies becamecult fanatics. Others fizzled out. Those who stood were oftenisolated in a youth-culture which lacked the breadth of God’sreal alternative.The searchers of the 60s found the establishment a turnoff.But things were changing. God’s Spirit was breaking thechains of culture and freeing his people emotionally.At our first Marquee campaign in Liverpool, Noel spoke ofthree breakthroughs — in the heavens, on the streets and inthe church. The angelic war had been engaged and God’spower was breaking through. Hearts were hungry as neverbefore. The 60s Jesus Movement had barely touched this countrybut now a new wave was on its way. Thousands would findGod at festivals, on the beaches and in the streets. This wasGod’s hour for the church as one favourite hymn declared:332