Fire in our hearts - The Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTSCOMMUNICATE!The time has come to favour Zion,The King of glory is marching in this land!Oh, a mighty Jesus revolutionIs advancing! The kingdom is at hand!One person was guaranteed to be ecstatic about all this, asmy journal showed:Yesterday Huw and I bumped into an inspired Rufus on the blackcurrantfield. He’d had a brilliant prayer walk with his new ‘son’Ronnie ‘Zealous’ and they’d prophesied together. He was full ofthis Jesus uprising; the hunger, teachability and readiness forsacrifice among the youth.‘Ah bro’, he said, ‘people are desperate for Jesus. They’vetried everything. They know it’s all a rip off. It never producedthe goods. Now’s the time for Jesus. They’re talking about him.They’re singing about him. They’re writing about him. The veryearth is crying out for him. Can’t you feel it? It’s had enough ofnew-agers and priests and pagans. The very soil of Britain isthirsty for God!’That summer we concentrated our faith and resources on theJesus Revolution. Image and dress were progressively updated.Exuberance, festivity and buzz characterised a churchthat was beginning to put on its festal garments and dancethrough the streets. A drab nation needed a colourful churchand all over Christendom God was waking his sleeping beauty.Under a hot August sun we staged a Jesus Demonstrationin Trafalgar Square. With the foot of Nelson’s column adornedby a Revolution Flame banner and the band belting it out333