Fire in our hearts - The Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTSAfterwordby Roger Forster‘Tax collectors can love tax collectors, sinners can love sinners’says Jesus, and adds in Luke 6:32-34 ‘what grace (charis)is that?’ The test of grace and of true discipleship is, Jesusgoes on to explain, to love those who are different from us.Sadly, many who would claim Christ’s name as theirs haveabandoned the place of grace to criticise those who are differentfrom themselves. The Jesus Fellowship has often beenthe victim of such brotherly intolerance and gracelessness.This volume shows, and their leader has acknowledged, thatthey have made mistakes. They have deserved censure andalso at times may have returned it. Which movement or denominationescapes this charge? Christian history is an appallingstory of hatred, persecution and intolerance. Conquistadors,inquisitions, burning of dissidents, drowning preachers,vilifications in the twentieth-century press, litter the his-427