Fire Camp🔥Melbourne: On Fire for God
- Apr 9
- 5 min read
Updated: Apr 29
Date: 29 Mar - 6 Apr
When I first recieved and believed in the Gospel in 2021, it was like my whole world was flipped upside down. If you are curious to know what the Gospel is, click here.
It was like a dark cloud that was over my eyes had suddenly dissipated, and I could see the world for what it truly was.
The sky turned from grey into a dazzling bright blue, and the birds begun to chirp in my ears with a sweet song - the God of all Creation had breathed life into me.
I suppose the powerful effects of God's Salvation have not changed since John Newton wrote the lyrics to "Amazing Grace":
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me, I once was lost, but now I'm found Was blind, but now I see.
Yet 5 years later, this wretch of a man, started to take this beautiful free gift of grace for granted.
I felt the desire in my heart for eternal things start to wane. My fire for the Gospel started to fizzle out. I began living for the things of this world again - money, selfish ambition, my own personal happiness, materialism and so forth.
It felt like I was living for myself now, rather than living for the God who worked hard to save me, died for me, and gave me eternal life.
Then, one day, my friend who was an evangelist invited me to a evangelistic training camp called "Fire Camp" started by an organization called "Christ For All Nations". It was to be held in Melbourne in the following month.
Then began the tug-of-war in my soul:
On one hand, I felt the Holy Spirit's longing in my heart to go to this camp.
On the other hand, I had recently spent a few thousand dollars on a Bible College course AND a Thailand Mission Trip.
And now ... was I willing to spend more on this?!
But I decided to make the leap anyway. I booked the camp, accomodation and my flight.
And it turned out to be the best decision I have made since I chose to accept Jesus Christ as Lord of my life. Which is saying A LOT.
It wasn't just preaching the Gospel that made this camp special.
It is that we believed in the Gospel deep in our hearts.
It was a whole week spent with a group of people who I can only describe as broken but beautiful vessels of mercy.
We all had a story: some of us were ex-drug addicts. Ex-new age occultist. Ex-p*rn addicts.
But God had mercy on us, and made us new by the Blood of Jesus Christ. And we were not apathetic to that fact.
The fire of the Gospel was burning in our hearts and swirling upward into an unquenchable flame.
Before I was a Christian, I used to wonder "What is the solution for world peace? What can bring all races of people together in love? All genders of people together in equality?"
I thought the answer to that was progressivism. The extreme left used to tell me that the solution for world peace was rebellion and hatred. Protests, activism, shooting down bigots and so on.
But that is not the solution to all the destruction in the world.
The only solution is the Gospel of the KINGDOM OF GOD.
And I saw it manifested at Fire Camp, Melbourne.
We all worshiped the Crucified Christ as King, and we were all genuinely united in Him. With real joy, love and peace in our hearts towards one another. We were from all over the world - some of us Pacific Islanders, Congonese, Chinese, Caucasian, Lebanese, African. But we were all smiling, crying, laughing and loving God together.
I like to emphasize the genuinity and authenticty of the love in our hearts. It is not a common thing, even in Christian community. But we were so fearless to love God, love each other and love the lost - ALL BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US THROUGH THE CROSS.
It was incredible.
... God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. ~ Romans 5:5
And we were not quiet about it. No. We were LOUD. We were HERE. And we were not going to back down. We were roaring like lions together throughout the whole camp and in the streets of Melbourne.
Other things we did in the camp included training in street preaching, testimonial sharing, having "Jesus parties" every night where we would dance to upbeat worship music together!
I will never forget Fire Camp, and Lord willing, it won't be the last time I involve myself with "Christ for All Nations".
As for my final conclusion to this blog:
We have been entrusted by God with the divine secret of eternal life. The secret that kings and queens of old would have died for in search of. The secret that scholars, wise men and even now millions of lost souls seek with all their heart. The most blissedly outrageous thing about this secret is that - it is no secret. We shout it on the streets for FREE.
And let us not forget that we have enemies to defend it from. Worldly organizations, false religions and powers who want to pervert it to their own demise. Their names range from Islam, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormonism, Progressivism and the like.
I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. Galatians 1:6-8
How do I know that we have the one true Gospel and not a false one? Because it has POWER. Our lives are witness. It has the POWER to turn evil men and women into innocent children of God. And it has the POWER to set people free from spiritual enslavement.
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power. 1 Corinthians 4:20
Let us hold on to what we first heard.
All praise, honour and glory to our Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father. All praise to the Holy Spirit - who is the Spirit of Truth. All praise to the one and only Triune God: YAHWEH is His Name.
Amen.
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