On Evangelism and Preaching (Interview)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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The Man on the Middle Cross, a new evangelistic booklet from Alistair Begg, is now out! In anticipation of its release, Alistair sat down with Jonathan Carswell, CEO of publisher 10ofThose, for a wide-ranging conversation on the relationship between evangelism and pastoring. Listen in on this special edition of Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello. Hello, this is Alistair Begg from Truth for Life. Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with |
| 0:30.8 | Jonathan Carswell from 10 of those publishing. We discussed ministry, evangelism, and how to be effective at introducing others to Jesus. |
| 0:41.0 | I hope you enjoy listening. Now here's Jonathan. |
| 0:48.3 | Hey, I'm Jonathan Carzell and I'm here talking with Alistair Begg. We're talking about ministry, |
| 0:53.8 | evangelism and sharing Jesus as we go about our daily life. |
| 0:58.5 | One of the things I've enjoyed about your ministry, your preaching ministry, but also personally, |
| 1:02.8 | you have a keen, evangelistic heart. |
| 1:07.3 | Was that modeled to you? |
| 1:09.0 | Did you see that through, say, Derek Prime? Was that model to you? Where did that come from? |
| 1:14.7 | Hmm. You know, I haven't really thought about that. I think it's come from everywhere. It's come from the fact that I was brought up in Glasgow in an interdenominational mission hall. |
| 1:25.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.0 | Which had been founded as a result of the evangelistic |
| 1:29.0 | missions of Moody and Sankey. And so in that environment, the combination of, you know, good news |
| 1:39.2 | and good deeds was being worked out in the city center. And I mean, I just thought, well, I guess that's what you do. |
| 1:47.1 | You know, the people are poor and are in need of food and clothing and help. |
| 1:52.1 | But more than that, they're in need of Jesus. |
| 1:55.0 | And so that was there. |
| 1:57.5 | As I went on in life, when, you know, the coffee bar scene was there in Yorkshire |
| 2:03.5 | in the 60s, the reason that we would want to do that is so we could tell other people about |
| 2:09.4 | Jesus. It never occurred to me that that would not be the end game. So there was someone saying, |
| 2:13.9 | well, what are you doing? You're just singing songs. Well, no, we're singing songs with a purpose. What's the purpose to see people come to know Jesus? And then, of course, |
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