Passage
Romans 15
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Doctrine
Christ-Centered Ministry
Ministry done in Christ's name and power, not humanitarian service divorced from the gospel.
ROM.15.17-21
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Doctrine
Christian Fellowship
Bare 'communion' is heard first as the Eucharist; must be qualified as 'fraternelle' to convey koinonia.
ROM.15.24
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Glossary Term
Church
Capitalized 'l'Église' strongly denotes the institutional Catholic Church in ordinary usage.
ROM.15.26
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Doctrine
Church as God's People
New covenant community, not the institutional 'Église' alone; French Protestants historically reserve 'église' for the body and 'temple' for the building, a distinction worth preserving in teaching.
ROM.15.26
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Glossary Term
Covenant
Relational covenant bond, more than a legal contract; 'alliance' also usefully evokes the wedding ring (l'alliance) in French, a helpful relational resonance.
ROM.15.12
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Glossary Term
David
Standard proper name form across all French Bible traditions.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
Requires OT background explanation for readers with low biblical literacy; 'semence de David' is archaic and should be rendered 'descendance de David'.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Evangelism
In a strongly laïque (secular) public culture, evangelism language must be framed as respectful proclamation and witness, not proselytizing pressure, to avoid alienating a biblically illiterate audience.
ROM.15.20
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Glossary Term
Exhort
Context-sensitive: use 'supplier' for beseeching; 'exhorter/encourager' for building up.
ROM.15.2
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Glossary Term
Fellowship
Bare 'communion' is heard first as receiving the Eucharist ('la communion').
ROM.15.24
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear historical fulfillment (OT to NT); no competing cyclical worldview in French culture, but low OT literacy among biblically unchurched readers requires explicit cross-referencing.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
'Païens' carries a pejorative 'uncivilized/irreligious' connotation in modern French stronger than the neutral original sense.
ROM.15.7-12
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Doctrine
Gospel
Stable term shared across Catholic and Protestant French Bibles; the term itself is not disputed, though biblical illiteracy in a secularizing France means the content of 'the gospel' can no longer be assumed as common knowledge.
ROM.15.19-20
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Glossary Term
Gospel
Shared, stable term across Catholic and Protestant French Bibles (Segond, TOB, Bible de Jérusalem).
ROM.15.19-20
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Glossary Term
Holy
Set apart for God and morally pure; 'pur' alone loses the set-apart sense.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Holy Spirit
Segond tradition uses 'Saint-Esprit'; ecumenical/modern translations (TOB, NBS) prefer 'Esprit Saint'.
ROM.15.16
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Doctrine
Inspiration of Scripture
Distinguish God-breathed Scripture from a purely literary or historical-critical reading common in secular French academic culture.
ROM.15.4
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Glossary Term
Intercession
Catholic devotional practice of 'intercession des saints' is a major category in French Catholic piety; must distinguish the Spirit's and Christ's unique heavenly intercession (Romans 8:26-27, 34) from saint or Marian intercession.
ROM.15.30-32
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Glossary Term
Israel
Contemporary Middle East politics and France's significant Jewish community make it easy for readers to conflate biblical Israel (the covenant people) with the modern nation-state; keep the referent historical/theological in this curriculum.
ROM.15.7-12
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Doctrine
Kingdom Mission
God's reign advancing through the gospel, not a political or cultural project.
ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21
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Glossary Term
Kingdom Of God
God's sovereign reign; distinguish from any political kingdom association.
ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21
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Glossary Term
Law
Capitalize as 'la Loi' for Torah/Mosaic law to distinguish from civil 'loi'.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Messiah
The Anointed One fulfilling OT promise, not one figure among several.
ROM.15.8-12
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
The specific Jewish OT concept fulfilled exclusively in Jesus must not be flattened into a generic wise-teacher or moral-exemplar figure, a drift risk in a biblically illiterate secular readership.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Mission
France's colonial missionary history (missions catholiques coloniales) carries live postcolonial critique in contemporary French theological discourse; frame mission as gospel proclamation, not cultural conquest.
ROM.15.15-24
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Doctrine
Mission to the Nations
France's colonial missionary history means 'mission' carries live postcolonial critique; frame as gospel proclamation, not cultural conquest.
ROM.15.15-24
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Doctrine
Mutual Edification
Building one another up in faith; no significant doctrinal risk.
ROM.15.2
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Doctrine
Prayer and Intercession
Direct access to God in Christ's name; must be distinguished from the Catholic devotional practice of intercession of the saints.
ROM.15.30-32
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration, not astrological prediction.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Prophet
God's spokesperson; avoid 'voyant' (fortune-teller connotation).
ROM.15.4
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Doctrine
Sanctification
The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy; low risk of ritual-purification confusion in French, unlike Hindi's shuddhi concern.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Sanctification
The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy; 'purification' risks a ritual-cleansing reading.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Seed Of David
Romans 1:3.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Separation unto God's Service
Must not collapse into monastic withdrawal from the world; biblical separation is devotion to God while remaining engaged in ordinary life.
ROM.15.16
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Given France's history and its significant Jewish community, this doctrine requires careful, historically aware handling rather than casual paraphrase.
ROM.15.7-12