Fire in our hearts - The Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTSCOMMUNICATE!Dear broken-hearted ones, your face is full of hurt,Feelings of agony; we long to share your pain.Let our eyes run with tears,Let our hearts flow with love;Our arms stretched out to you our friends,Like his who wept and died.At one point Daz and Trev were dragged on stage, put intostocks and pelted with words like ‘hatred’, ‘rejection’ and ‘injustice’.The searchers, who could no longer endure all theabuse they’d already witnessed, rushed onto the stage shouting‘Enough!’ It was powerfully symbolic. As the section ‘Jesus,Radical and Redeemer’ unfolded, the searchers werefound at last kneeling at the cross.A garden and a cup, a cup of suffering,A cup filled to the brim, a cup only for him.A moment of quiet followed the song. Suddenly Daz jumpedup shouting: ‘He is risen! He is risen!’ The searchers wentwild. With ‘angelic’ music filling the air, they threw off theirsackcloth, revealing the brilliant clothes of resurrection andhope. Soon, during the ‘Church’ sequence, all who’d beenhomeless or in prison gathered on stage. As they sang andswayed together, the video-camera zoomed in on Paul fromLondon. We could see him on screen as he smiled, arm in armwith his friends. For those who knew, it was a moment oftears. It was his song:370