Passage

Romans 12

• Doctrine

  Christian Identity in Christ

  Identity located in union with Christ, not regional, cultural, or nominal-Catholic heritage identity.

  ROM.12.5

• Glossary Term

  Church

  HIGH RISK: in Bavarian village life the parish church (Pfarrkirch) is the literal, physical center of communal identity, marked yearly by the Kirchweih/Kirwa festival (the church's consecration anniversary, one of the most important traditional Bavarian folk festivals); 'Kirch' therefore defaults overwhelmingly to the building and parish institution, arguably even more concretely than standard German 'Kirche'.

  ROM.12.4-5

• Doctrine

  Church as God's People

  HIGH RISK: 'Kirch' defaults overwhelmingly to the physical parish building and its Kirchweih festival culture, not the NT gathered-people sense; the natural dialect word for a local gathered community, 'Gmoa', is unusable here because it is monopolized by the secular-municipality meaning.

  ROM.12.4-5

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Must not collapse into monastic withdrawal; biblical separation is devotion to God while remaining engaged in ordinary village and family life.

  ROM.12.1-2

• Doctrine

  Spiritual Gifts

  Keep gifts explicitly grace-given, not natural talent or folk-devotional favor.

  ROM.12.6-8

• Glossary Term

  Spiritual Gifts

  Compound of 'Gnad' (grace) and a dialect-contracted 'Gob'n' (Gaben, gifts); ties gifts explicitly back to grace as in the standard German 'Gnadengaben'.

  ROM.12.6-8