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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 being able to bring the guitar

out has been a bit more difficult. But I at least know where my my guitar is. It's no longer in a loft inaccessibly.

And I had mine restringed just in the hope that you would be able to play at 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 Wright 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.

I've 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 the sort of 60s and 70s and so on.

And so before we get into some of the questions on this stuff,

what's your general sort of

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