Welcome to this replay of Ask NT Write Anything, where we go back into the archives to bring you the best of the thought and theology of Tom Wright.

Answering questions submitted by you, the listener, you can find more episodes as well as many more resources for exploring Faith at PremierUnbelieveable.com

and registering there will unlock access through the newsletter to updates, free bonus videos and e-books.

That's PremierUnbelieveable.com.

And now for today's replay of Ask NT Write Anything.

So today on the podcast we're going to be talking about the charismatic gifts of the spirit.

Quite a few people asking questions about this Tom, but before we get into that, one thing many people love, especially in the earlier episodes of the podcast has been you pulling out the guitar occasionally to give us a few tunes.

We haven't had as much opportunity recently to do that. You've been in the middle of a very busy change of your life, moving to Oxford and that's meant that that be able to bring this out has been a bit more difficult.

But I at least know where my guitar is. It's no longer in and loft inaccessibly.

And I had mine restring just in the hope that you would be able to play it this time, Tom.

God willing, I will one day work up another song or two we'll see.

So for those who are anxiously awaiting the next Tom, Tom right unplugged, don't worry. We will eventually get to doing some more.

We won't leave you high and dry. In any case, in a sense, the charismatic movement has, this is a rather tenuous link to talking about guitars, but there has been an extraordinary wave in the West, well all over the world really, of a kind of charismatic emphasis in Christianity.

And whether or not people think of themselves as charismatic, the songs they sing have often been part of that movement, have come out of that.

Just the fact that many churches now do employ quite a contemporary band-led style of worship and that sort of thing, I would say has its roots to a great degree in the charismatic renewal of their sort of 60s and 70s and so on.

So before we get into some of the questions on this stuff, what's your general sort of looking back with your experience? What have you seen happen, particular ways in your own Anglican tradition when it comes to the charismatic expression of the spirit?

And even the fact that, you know, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, it could be argued, it comes from that tradition itself through Holy Trinity Broncos and so on.

Yes, I mean, I remember vividly in the late 60s when I was an undergraduate and was part of the Christian Union in Oxford.

And I come from a very middly, middly Anglican background, but then through my teens that was strongly overlaid with solid Bible teaching through script union and script union boys camps and so on.

And I was very well taught and I was quite well equipped in that stage through my teens.

But I remember at one point the book that was sort of flavor of the month in about 1965, six was David Wilkerson, the cross in the switch plate.

And a lot of us read it eagerly and some of the people who were teaching us at the time were saying, well now just be a little bit careful because this guy's a crazy American Pentecostal and all sorts of weird things are happening.

...