The Ask NT Write Anything. I'm Ruth Jackson and today we're bringing you an episode from the archives.

In 2019, Tom Wright fielded listener questions on evangelism in a post-Christian world,

whether we can know that Jesus is the only way to God and how to talk about Jesus with a Muslim.

And Tom also got his guitar out again which I for one am very

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join Justin Riley putting your questions to Tom Wright from 2019.

It was great to be sitting down with you again, Tom, to record another edition of our podcast.

We're trying to segment these up into different themes as they've come in with various questions.

And a number of the questions that came in were on mission and evangelism. That's the broad title I've given them.

Um, do you ever think of yourself as an evangelist? Yes. In a sense, yes. Um, in a sense, no. Let me

explain both of those. What I spend my life doing mostly is trying to explain the New Testament and what it's all about

and particularly trying to present who Jesus was and is the meaning of his death and resurrection.

And it seems to me that is to be talking about the gospel, the good news, and trying to present it to as wider readership and audience as I can.

However, when I preach, I haven't found it my main vocation, as it were, to be preaching to the rank outsiders.

I've done a fair amount of that, but I think my vocation has tended to concentrate on teaching Christians, people who are already part of the faith community in whatever way,

how to understand their faith and how they can be living witnesses.

And in particular, I remember when I was quite young, being disappointed because I heard a lot of sermons about how we should all be bringing our friends to the Lord

and explaining the faith to people so that they would become Christians.

And I've done a bit of that. And I've prayed for many friends, some of whom have become Christians

and some of whom haven't, often without me having anything to do with it other than praying.

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