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BONUS Subscriber only Easter Show: What does Easter mean for the mission of the Church today? Tom Wright and Mike Bird

Ask NT Wright Anything

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, History

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

You’re here because you love hearing Tom Wright’s insights on Ask NT Wright Anything. In this special Easter Monday episode—available free on our new subscriber-only feed—Mike Bird and Tom Wright go beyond the empty tomb to explore the bold, world-shaping implications of the resurrection. What does Easter really mean for the mission of the Church today? Is resurrection just about life after death—or something far bigger? Mike asks how Easter reshapes the Church’s mission today. Tom reflects on a Holy Week sermon in Jerusalem in 1989—focused on heaven, but missing the power of new creation now. From ancient Jerusalem to today’s conflicts, they explore how the resurrection calls Christians to justice, beauty, evangelism—and above all, hope. Jesus rises not to help us escape the world, but to redeem it. Rooted in John 20, the Great Commission, and Psalm 2, this episode offers a bold vision of the Church as a living sign of God’s new creation. Got a question for Tom or want to subscribe for exclusive editions of the show? Go here: askntwright.com   Ask NT Wright Anything is sponsored by Logos  – start going deeper in the Bible with a free trial at logos.com/NT #askntwrightanything #christianapologetics #theology #tomwright #ntwright #Resurrection #mission #thecrossofchrist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Tom, have you heard the good news? No, not about Jesus's death and resurrection,

0:35.6

the forgiveness of sins. Rather, have you heard the good

0:38.9

news about our subscriber episodes? Yeah, I don't really understand how all these things work,

0:44.7

but I do understand that this is going to be a way of getting great content out to all sorts of

0:50.0

people, so I'm all in favor. We get all these great questions from people, Tom, but you and I talk after the show

0:56.6

and think, boy, it'd be great if we could discuss this thing on justification or the

1:01.7

Holy Spirit or something on mission or if we could grind through a particular biblical book

1:07.4

at some length and in some depth.

1:10.3

But we don't have the apparatus to do that until

1:13.1

right now. With this new subscription service, people can join this great intimate and informative

1:19.3

conversations that we'll be having. They can be part of the journey with us. I mean, Tom,

1:23.9

do you find that exciting? Is it exciting? Watching's watching Australia defeat England in an ashes test match.

1:31.3

Answering questions for just a few minutes is great, and that has to happen.

1:35.7

There are many questions where one has to say, look, let's take a deep breath.

1:39.6

Let's spread this out a bit more fully, and let's deal with the different aspects of this topic.

1:44.6

And that's what these longer subscriber episodes are really going to be about.

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