Passage

Romans 15

• Doctrine

  Christ-Centered Ministry

  Ministry done in Christ's name, by his power, for his glory, not humanitarian service divorced from the gospel or generic guru-style spiritual instruction.

  ROM.15.17-21

• Doctrine

  Christian Fellowship

  Shared participation in Christ, not merely social association or Satra-community membership.

  ROM.15.24

• Glossary Term

  Church

  NEVER নামঘৰ -- this is the specific Ekasarana Dharma prayer-house institution (Sankardev's congregational innovation, itself historically a genuine functional parallel to a congregation, but a distinct religious institution).

  ROM.15.26

• Doctrine

  Church as God's People

  New covenant community, not a ritual institution modeled on the Namghar/Satra structure or a caste-segregated assembly.

  ROM.15.26

• Glossary Term

  Covenant

  Relational covenant bond, more than a business contract (চুক্তি).

  ROM.15.12

• Glossary Term

  David

  Established Assamese Bible Society proper-name form.

  ROM.15.12

• Doctrine

  Davidic Covenant

  Requires explicit Old Testament background explanation; there is no analogous royal-lineage covenant concept in Ekasarana or wider Assamese Vaishnavite tradition.

  ROM.15.12

• Doctrine

  Evangelism

  Culturally sensitive given Assam's history of mission-era tension between Hindu-Assamese identity and Christianized tribal populations; use language of proclamation and witness, not confrontational framing.

  ROM.15.20

• Glossary Term

  Exhort

  Context-sensitive: use সোঁৱৰোৱা/মিনতি (entreaty) for beseeching; উৎসাহিত কৰা (encourage) for building up.

  ROM.15.2

• Glossary Term

  Fellowship

  Shared participation in Christ; সমাজ (society/community) is too generic-civic for this theological sense.

  ROM.15.24

• Doctrine

  Fulfillment of Prophecy

  Linear historical fulfillment (OT to NT), not the cyclical cosmic pattern in which a deity repeatedly descends age after age to restore dharma.

  ROM.15.8-12

• Glossary Term

  Gentiles

  Non-Jews; established Bible Society term.

  ROM.15.7-12

• Doctrine

  Gospel

  Must be distinguished from ordinary good news or an Ekasarana Dharma naam-proclamation.

  ROM.15.19-20

• Glossary Term

  Gospel

  Established Assamese Bible Society (ABS) term, shared with the Bengali-Assamese Christian tradition.

  ROM.15.19-20

• Glossary Term

  Holy

  পবিত্ৰ = set apart for God, morally pure.

  ROM.15.16

• Glossary Term

  Holy Spirit

  CRITICAL: Never ব্ৰহ্ম (impersonal Absolute Reality of Vedantic philosophy) or পৰমাত্মা alone (universal Self).

  ROM.15.16

• Doctrine

  Inspiration of Scripture

  Distinguish God-breathed Scripture from the Ekasarana tradition's own foundational text, the Bhagavata Purana as rendered in Sankardev's Assamese Bhagavata -- itself treated with near-canonical devotional authority in Namghar worship.

  ROM.15.4

• Glossary Term

  Intercession

  Prayer offered on behalf of others through a single mediator, Christ.

  ROM.15.30-32

• Glossary Term

  Israel

  Proper name; established Bible Society form.

  ROM.15.7-12

• Doctrine

  Kingdom Mission

  God's reign advancing through the gospel, not a political or ethnic kingdom, a sensitive association in Assam's regional political history.

  ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21

• Glossary Term

  Kingdom Of God

  God's sovereign reign; distinguish from political-kingdom associations, which carry particular weight in a state (Assam) with a history of contested regional sovereignty (the historic Ahom kingdom).

  ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21

• Glossary Term

  Law

  Torah/Mosaic law.

  ROM.15.8-12

• Glossary Term

  Messiah

  Transliterated term, established across Assamese Christian usage.

  ROM.15.8-12

• Doctrine

  Messianic Promise

  CRITICAL: Messiah is a specific Jewish Old Testament concept fulfilled exclusively in Jesus.

  ROM.15.8-12

• Glossary Term

  Mission

  Describes the activity plainly (proclaiming the good news) rather than importing মিছন, which in Assam carries loaded associations with 19th-century American Baptist Mission institutions among tribal populations and can read as foreign/colonial to a Hindu-Assamese audience.

  ROM.15.15-24

• Doctrine

  Mission to the Nations

  Cultural sensitivity: American Baptist Mission history among Assam's tribal populations gives 'mission' loaded institutional connotations for a Hindu-Assamese audience.

  ROM.15.15-24

• Doctrine

  Mutual Edification

  Building one another up in faith; no significant doctrinal risk.

  ROM.15.2

• Doctrine

  Prayer and Intercession

  Direct access to God in Christ's name; distinguish from ritual worship (puja) directed at an image or from petitions channeled through a Satradhikar.

  ROM.15.30-32

• Glossary Term

  Prophecy

  God-inspired declaration, distinct from astrological calculation (গণনা).

  ROM.15.8-12

• Glossary Term

  Prophet

  God's spokesperson; distinguish from astrologer/fortune-teller (জ্যোতিষী).

  ROM.15.4

• Doctrine

  Sanctification

  The Spirit's work of making believers holy, not ritual purification rites (সংস্কাৰ) or ascetic self-discipline practiced by Satra bhakats.

  ROM.15.16

• Glossary Term

  Sanctification

  The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy.

  ROM.15.16

• Glossary Term

  Seed Of David

  Romans 1:3; conveys physical lineage and OT covenant fulfillment.

  ROM.15.12

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Must not be confused with the Satra tradition's monastic renunciation (celibate bhakats who withdraw from ordinary life within a Satra institution).

  ROM.15.16

• Doctrine

  Unity of Jews and Gentiles

  Directly challenges caste and ethnic spiritual hierarchy still present in Assamese Hindu social structure.

  ROM.15.7-12