Passage

Romans 14

• Glossary Term

  Exhort

  Context-sensitive: şîret kirin (to admonish) for beseeching; handan kirin (to encourage) for building up.

  ROM.14.19

• Glossary Term

  Jesus

  CRITICAL: as in Persian and Pashto, the small Kurdish Christian presence (historically Assyrian/Chaldean rather than ethnically Kurdish) has not produced a rival native transliteration; 'Îsa' is used without naming controversy.

  ROM.14.9

• Doctrine

  Kingdom Mission

  CRITICAL: the Kurds' century-long, deeply emotional national aspiration for an independent Kurdistan makes 'Kingdom of God' language especially prone to being heard as validating or blending with that specific political aspiration; must be taught as exclusively about God's spiritual reign.

  ROM.14.17

• Glossary Term

  Kingdom Of God

  CRITICAL: the Kurds are widely described as the largest stateless ethnic group in the world, with a century-long, deeply emotional national aspiration for an independent Kurdistan.

  ROM.14.17

• Glossary Term

  Lord

  CRITICAL: applying supreme, exclusive Lordship to Jesus (Romans 10:9) is the deity claim itself, resisted on the same tawhid grounds as in Arabic and Persian, and must not be softened to mere ownership or leadership.

  ROM.14.9

• Doctrine

  Lordship of Christ

  CRITICAL: applying supreme Lordship to Jesus (Romans 10:9) is the deity claim itself and must never be softened.

  ROM.14.9

• Doctrine

  Mutual Edification

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

  ROM.14.19

• Doctrine

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term with broad positive overlap; low risk.

  ROM.14.6

• Glossary Term

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term with broad positive overlap; low risk.

  ROM.14.6