Fire in our hearts - The Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTSCOMMUNICATE!Peter Wagner wrote of the pentecostal churches in LatinAmerica. 119 Here were red-blooded enthusiasts who took thegood news to the people. Pastors were poor, often illiterate,and bore more resemblance to the disciples of Jesus than thebible students of the West. Poverty kept them in touch withthe common man. Their college was the street, their successmeasured by the number of churches they’d planted. In thethird world poverty and hardship had produced good soil forthe gospel. By contrast so many westerners were weigheddown with wealth and stunted by comforts. What hope wasthere for us? In 1989 Rob White of British Youth for Christtold us in an interview for Jesus Lifestyle how he’d seen Jesuswith his back on Europe.‘You’ve waved me goodbye in Europe’, the Lord said.‘Do you really need me?’ And this he asked three times.‘Yes Lord, we really need you!’ I cried in earnest.‘But do you realise that will mean holiness?’And it was like hanging on his coat tails saying, ‘Turn roundLord. Please turn round!’And he began to turn round. 120Within a year communism had collapsed in Europe and peoplewere dancing on the ruins of the Berlin Wall.Economic recession, family breakdown and moral decay hadopened people up spiritually in Europe, especially Britain.The massive response to March for Jesus revealed a grassrootsmovement hungry for spiritual life. When 50,000 Chris-343