Passage

Romans 12

• Doctrine

  Christian Identity in Christ

  Identity located in union with Christ, not in inherited caste, religious community of birth, or family honor status — a high-stakes claim in a region where religious identity is usually inherited and communal rather than individually chosen.

  ROM.12.5

• Glossary Term

  Church

  মণ্ডলী (assembly/congregation) is the established term for the doctrinal Church.

  ROM.12.4-5

• Doctrine

  Church as God's People

  New covenant community, not a caste-segregated assembly or a purely ritual institution.

  ROM.12.4-5

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Must not be confused with Hindu sannyasa (world-renunciation) or Sufi ascetic withdrawal.

  ROM.12.1-2

• Doctrine

  Spiritual Gifts

  Spirit-given enablements, not merit-earned powers or Hindu siddhi (supernatural yogic attainments).

  ROM.12.6-8

• Glossary Term

  Spiritual Gifts

  বর alone means "boon," familiar from Bengali folk-Hindu stories of a deity granting a boon to a devotee.

  ROM.12.6-8