Passage

Romans 12

• Doctrine

  Christian Identity in Christ

  Identity located in union with Christ, not in tribal (qabila), ethnic, or sectarian (Sunni/Shia) identity markers, which carry unusually strong social weight in many Arab contexts.

  ROM.12.5

• Glossary Term

  Church

  الأمة (ummah) is the specific pan-Islamic term for the worldwide community of Muslims and must never be borrowed for 'church.' In everyday usage al-kanisah often denotes the physical building of a minority religious community rather than the living, gathered people of God; reinforce the latter sense explicitly.

  ROM.12.4-5

• Doctrine

  Church as God's People

  New covenant community, not merely the physical building of a marked minority-religion enclave, which is the dominant everyday sense of al-kanisah in many contexts.

  ROM.12.4-5

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Must not be confused with Sufi zuhd (world-renunciation/asceticism) or with ritual purification rites; biblical separation is devoted engagement with the world, not withdrawal from it.

  ROM.12.1-2

• Doctrine

  Spiritual Gifts

  Must retain the 'spiritual' qualifier so mawhiba is not read as natural talent or artistic ability.

  ROM.12.6-8

• Glossary Term

  Spiritual Gifts

  Always pair with الروحية; المواهب alone reads as natural talent or artistic ability, not Spirit-given supernatural enablement.

  ROM.12.6-8