Gospel Definitions

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.

  • 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).
  • 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.
  • As is always the case, he wrote to sinful people.  He warned against those who are divisive (Romans 16:17 ff).
  • In Romans 16:20 he reminded his readers that Satan is real, but that we can trust God to crush him.