Passage

Romans 14

• Glossary Term

  Exhort

  OBSOLESCENCE RISK: 'exhort' and 'exhortation' are rare, formal, almost archaic-sounding words in ordinary contemporary speech; readers will likely need the word glossed (encourage, urge strongly) but are unlikely to actively misread it, since it has no competing secular meaning to interfere.

  ROM.14.19

• Glossary Term

  Jesus

  Widely used as a casual interjection or mild expletive in secular speech, a use this curriculum's register should obviously avoid; otherwise the name itself is stable, though popular 'historical Jesus' framings (a wise moral teacher, a social reformer) often quietly strip out the divine claims Romans makes about him.

  ROM.14.9

• Doctrine

  Kingdom Mission

  For readers, especially younger ones, whose primary cultural exposure to 'kingdoms' is fantasy fiction, film, and games, 'kingdom' may evoke an imagined fictional realm rather than God's actual present-and-coming sovereign reign.

  ROM.14.17

• Glossary Term

  Kingdom Of God

  For readers, especially younger ones, whose primary cultural exposure to 'kingdoms' is fantasy fiction, film, and games, 'kingdom' may evoke an imagined fictional realm rather than God's actual present-and-coming sovereign reign; this curriculum should stress the kingdom of God's real, historical, and ongoing nature.

  ROM.14.17

• Glossary Term

  Lord

  CRITICAL: 'Lord' has nearly disappeared from ordinary spoken English outside this specific religious usage, and where it does survive (British/Commonwealth aristocratic titles, 'the House of Lords,' fantasy fiction 'dark lords') it carries archaic or fictional-genre associations rather than lived, felt authority.

  ROM.14.9

• Doctrine

  Lordship of Christ

  CRITICAL: 'Lord' has nearly disappeared from ordinary spoken English outside this specific religious usage; where it survives (British aristocratic titles, fantasy fiction) it carries archaic or fictional-genre associations rather than lived, felt authority.

  ROM.14.9

• Doctrine

  Mutual Edification

  'Edify/edification' is rare and slightly archaic in ordinary speech (obsolescence risk) but has no significant competing meaning, so it is unlikely to be actively misunderstood once glossed.

  ROM.14.19

• Doctrine

  Thanksgiving

  Minor risk: the capitalized national holiday 'Thanksgiving' could crowd out the general theological sense of giving thanks to God; context usually disambiguates.

  ROM.14.6

• Glossary Term

  Thanksgiving

  Minor risk: capitalized 'Thanksgiving' names a major secular/cultural American national holiday (turkey, family gatherings, football), which could crowd out the general theological sense of giving thanks to God found throughout Romans; context (lowercase, general usage) usually disambiguates.

  ROM.14.6