Passage

Romans 12

• Doctrine

  Christian Identity in Christ

  Identity located in union with Christ, not national, denominational, or cultural heritage identity.

  ROM.12.5

• Glossary Term

  Church

  HIGH RISK: Catholic and state-church (Landeskirche) usage defaults 'Kirche' to the institution; Free church (Freikirche) and Pietist tradition prefer 'Gemeinde' for the gathered local body, closer to NT ekklesia.

  ROM.12.4-5

• Doctrine

  Church as God's People

  New covenant community, not the institutional Kirche or Landeskirche tax-registered membership alone; Free church tradition's 'Gemeinde' vocabulary better captures the NT sense.

  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 life and vocation.

  ROM.12.1-2

• Doctrine

  Spiritual Gifts

  Charismatic and cessationist-leaning German Protestant streams read gifts language differently; keep gifts explicitly grace-given, not natural talent.

  ROM.12.6-8

• Glossary Term

  Spiritual Gifts

  'Gnadengaben' (grace-gifts) ties the gifts explicitly back to Gnade (grace), a more precise Lutheran/Reformed rendering than the looser 'geistliche Gaben'.

  ROM.12.6-8