Passage

Romans 15

• Doctrine

  Christ-Centered Ministry

  Ministry is done in Christ's name, by his power, for his glory — not the sacred-work (kayaka) ethic pursued as a spiritual discipline in its own right, however much its dignity-of-labor value resonates with Christian vocation.

  ROM.15.17-21

• Doctrine

  Christian Fellowship

  Shared participation in Christ, not merely social or caste-community association.

  ROM.15.24

• Glossary Term

  Church

  Established Kannada Christian term for the congregation (an assembly of people).

  ROM.15.26

• Doctrine

  Church as God's People

  A new covenant community, not a caste-segregated assembly or a ritual institution built around a temple building.

  ROM.15.26

• Glossary Term

  Covenant

  Established Kannada Christian term for a binding relational bond; ಒಪ್ಪಂದ (a mutual agreement/contract) is too transactional for a divinely-initiated covenant.

  ROM.15.12

• Glossary Term

  David

  Established proper name form.

  ROM.15.12

• Doctrine

  Davidic Covenant

  Requires OT background explanation; no structural equivalent exists in Haridasa bhakti or Veerashaiva tradition.

  ROM.15.12

• Doctrine

  Evangelism

  Culturally sensitive given both Hindu-nationalist concerns and the strong regional pride Karnataka communities take in their own reform and devotional traditions; use language of proclamation and witness, not confrontation.

  ROM.15.20

• Glossary Term

  Exhort

  Context-sensitive: use ವಿನಂತಿ for entreaty; ಪ್ರೋತ್ಸಾಹ for encouragement/building up.

  ROM.15.2

• Glossary Term

  Fellowship

  Shared participation in Christ, not mere social friendship (ಸ್ನೇಹ).

  ROM.15.24

• Doctrine

  Fulfillment of Prophecy

  Linear, one-time historical fulfillment; not the cyclical cosmic time shared by mainstream Hindu yuga cycles, nor the stage-by-stage spiritual ascent of the Lingayat shatsthala path, which is progressive but individual rather than a single shared historical fulfillment for all peoples.

  ROM.15.8-12

• Glossary Term

  Gentiles

  Non-Jewish peoples; ವಿದೇಶಿಯರು (foreigners) is too narrowly national.

  ROM.15.7-12

• Doctrine

  Gospel

  ಸುವಾರ್ತೆ must be distinguished from any general positive announcement.

  ROM.15.19-20

• Glossary Term

  Gospel

  Established Kannada Christian term (su- 'good' + vārte 'news').

  ROM.15.19-20

• Glossary Term

  Holy

  Set apart for God and morally pure; ಶುದ್ಧ leans toward ritual purity rather than relational holiness.

  ROM.15.16

• Glossary Term

  Holy Spirit

  CRITICAL: never ಪರಮಾತ್ಮ (the impersonal or monistic Universal Self of Vedantic usage).

  ROM.15.16

• Doctrine

  Inspiration of Scripture

  Distinguish God-breathed Scripture from the vachana literature of the Sharana poet-saints (revered as inspired spiritual wisdom born of mystical experience, but not claiming to be God's own spoken word) and from Haridasa devotional compositions (kirtane), both genuinely treasured but categorically different from biblical inspiration.

  ROM.15.4

• Glossary Term

  Intercession

  Prayer on behalf of others; standard term.

  ROM.15.30-32

• Glossary Term

  Israel

  Proper name; established form.

  ROM.15.7-12

• Doctrine

  Kingdom Mission

  God's reign advancing through the gospel; not a political kingdom or a regional religious-reform movement, however admirable its social aims.

  ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21

• Glossary Term

  Kingdom Of God

  God's sovereign reign, not a territorial or political kingdom.

  ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21

• Glossary Term

  Law

  Torah/Mosaic law.

  ROM.15.8-12

• Glossary Term

  Messiah

  CRITICAL: transliterated term; the unique OT-promised deliverer, not one of many avatar-descents.

  ROM.15.8-12

• Doctrine

  Messianic Promise

  CRITICAL: the Messiah is the unique OT-promised deliverer, not one of the Haridasa tradition's Krishna-avatar associations, and not an exceptionally realized human teacher such as a Sharana poet-saint.

  ROM.15.8-12

• Glossary Term

  Mission

  ಸುವಾರ್ತಾ ಪ್ರಸಾರ is the descriptive Kannada phrase; ಮಿಷನ್ is retained with awareness of its colonial-era connotation.

  ROM.15.15-24

• Doctrine

  Mission to the Nations

  'Mission' carries colonial-era connotation; ಸುವಾರ್ತಾ ಪ್ರಸಾರ is preferred in most contexts.

  ROM.15.15-24

• Doctrine

  Mutual Edification

  Building one another up in faith; no significant doctrinal risk.

  ROM.15.2

• Doctrine

  Prayer and Intercession

  Direct access to God through Christ; distinguish from bhakti puja/kirtane directed toward a chosen personal deity and from the meditative discipline of engaging the ishtalinga.

  ROM.15.30-32

• Glossary Term

  Prophecy

  God-inspired declaration, distinct from astrological forecasting.

  ROM.15.8-12

• Glossary Term

  Prophet

  God's spokesperson, not a fortune-teller/astrologer (ಜ್ಯೋತಿಷಿ).

  ROM.15.4

• Doctrine

  Sanctification

  The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy; not the disciplined, self-directed ascent through the Lingayat shatsthala stages, however much the outward ethical behavior may overlap.

  ROM.15.16

• Glossary Term

  Sanctification

  The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy, distinct from ritual purification and from the disciplined stage-by-stage self-cultivation of the Lingayat shatsthala path.

  ROM.15.16

• Glossary Term

  Seed Of David

  Romans 1:3; conveys physical lineage and OT covenant fulfillment.

  ROM.15.12

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Interestingly, Lingayat kayaka theology (sacred, dignified work as worship, rejecting renunciation) is culturally closer to biblical 'separation while remaining in the world' than classic ascetic withdrawal is — but the risk is the opposite direction here: kayaka's this-worldly diligence must not be read as itself the source of holiness, which in Romans is God's declaration and the Spirit's ongoing work, not the fruit of disciplined labor.

  ROM.15.16

• Doctrine

  Unity of Jews and Gentiles

  Directly challenges caste-based spiritual hierarchy; must be translated with full theological clarity, not softened.

  ROM.15.7-12