Trevin Wax is building a collection of Gospel definitions. See here. This will be a valuable resource for our Romans Project at church given the centrality of the Gospel in Romans.
I gave a summary of the Gospel here.
For our church family, recall that when Paul wrote Romans he sought to address a wide range of issues through the Gospel. Paul knew that the Gospel is the fundamental solution for all of life.
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When Paul wrote Romans, he was addressing a wide range of issues.
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Romans is a missions support letter. Paul’s intent was to stop in Rome and to then continue on to Spain with the help of the church in Roman (Romans 15:24).
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The church in Rome was facing a conflict between the majority Gentile Christians and the Jewish Christians. Throughout Romans, Paul seeks to show the proper resolution of this conflict.
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As is always the case, he wrote to sinful people. He warned against those who are divisive (Romans 16:17 ff).
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In Romans 16:20 he reminded his readers that Satan is real, but that we can trust God to crush him.
