Passage

Romans 16

• Doctrine

  Christian Fellowship

  Shared participation in Christ, not generic in-group harmony feeling (仲間意識) from Japan's wa culture.

  ROM.16.3-16

• Glossary Term

  Church

  Established term.

  ROM.16.1-16

• Doctrine

  Church as God's People

  New covenant community, not a Buddhist temple (寺) or Shinto shrine (神社) institution.

  ROM.16.1-16

• Glossary Term

  Fellowship

  Shared participation in Christ.

  ROM.16.3-16

• Doctrine

  Obedience of Faith

  Japan's strong hierarchical-obedience culture (seniority systems, corporate hierarchy, historic Bushido loyalty) risks reducing obedience of faith to social-conformity compliance rather than a Spirit-produced response to grace.

  ROM.16.26

• Glossary Term

  Obedience Of Faith

  Romans 1:5 and 16:26.

  ROM.16.26

• Doctrine

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term; minor risk of generic secular gratitude without reference to God specifically.

  ROM.16.4

• Glossary Term

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term.

  ROM.16.4