Fire in our hearts - The Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTSCOMMUNICATE!Rufus asked Nathan and Phil to get involved but Nathan wasblowing hot and cold, afraid of being drawn in. A meetingwas arranged at the Farm but they turned up four hours late,stoned out of their heads. They put a downer on the wholething. It was far too square and, besides, Nathan had hismusical career to consider. Rufus felt like strangling him butswallowed a further dose of patience and humility. He remembereda difficult young actor from the past.Soon Noel was ringing up Phil with questions about thelatest music and fashions. ‘What exactly is Grunge?’ Noelasked.He saw Phil as a link with the youth culture. Saved or not,Nathan and Phil were our men on the ground and in touch.Phil gladly sent down tapes and articles. He even spent anoccasional night at the Farm, beating a hasty retreat back toNottingham in the morning.One night Nathan was celebrating his seventeenth birthdaywhen Rufus and another Farm brother turned up. Theypiled into the car and drove out to the Derbyshire hills. Therewas a mad climb in the dark and, on the top of Black Rocks,swept by a wild, chilling wind, Phil unburdened his guilt toRufus. As they prayed Phil broke down, found forgivenessand was freed from a spirit of rejection.This was his first touch of God and he ran down the hillfeeling like air. From then on his spirit began to come alive.But there was no sudden clean-up. That summer Phil abandonedhimself to loose-living, wild parties and raves. God wasthere too, waiting.Nathan was equally wild and had left King’s House to livewith friends near Rugby. Noel stayed true to him through a362