FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
NEW GENERATION
awake) that our cell groups brought along with them were attracted by the music, the visuals and the creative exuberance. Many found the life of the Spirit at these events. This was church and it was exciting! I was reminded of the early days at Bugbrooke chapel, when the Northampton hippies, who were nowhere to be seen before lunch, all turned up for the vibrant (and sometimes dramatic) evening meetings. Now, apart from Sunday evenings, it was the team spirit of mid-week cell groups, meeting in homes and evenings spent in community houses that gave new friends their bread and butter experience of church. That spoke of the future. Nathan and Rob noted the friendly buzz at a popular nightclub. Amidst the lights, mobiles and music, people shared, flowed, and danced freely with hands raised as if in worship. Seeing their tremendous potential for God, Rob and Nathan just wished they could bring them to Jesus, set up a pool on the dance-floor and baptise them there and then! These brothers spotlighted the need to get in amongst people — not with dogma or a slick answer — but with sensitivity. We too were searchers, as one song made plain: I’m still seaching, Lord, on a journey, Learning, yearning — and yes, I do believe in You. We hadn’t arrived, had we? Christians were so keen for people to come to their party. Maybe God was saying, ‘I’m out there amongst the people. Come and join Me.’
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