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Welcome, welcome, I'm Justin Briley.

Sitting down once again with New Testament scholar and prolific author Tom Wright

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on the church worship and unity. Without further ado let's get into this week's edition of the show.

It's my pleasure to sit down every couple of weeks at least with Tom Wright to get his

thoughts on all kinds of questions that come in from listeners. And today the theme that

we've gathered the questions under is around the church and worship and unity and those

sorts of issues. Lots of different questions

coming in on this. For you, Tom, would you say you've seen in your lifetime a lot of movement

in the whole area of church unity, church is willing to work together, a different denomination

and so on? Yes, actually, I have and it's been very exciting and encouraging.

I grew up in a market town in central Northumberland where there was, there were two or

three Anglican church buildings, but it was one parish. But then there were two quite different

Methodist churches, which eventually they joined together and people, oh, they're getting

together now. There was a URC church, which then was a congregational church, and then there

was a Presbyterian church. They finally got together. Now, some would say cynically, well, that's

because they were all shrinking and they could only afford one building between them. But I think

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