Passage

Romans 15

• Doctrine

  Christ-Centered Ministry

  Ministry done in Christ's name, by his power, for his glory, not humanitarian service divorced from the gospel or generic pandit-style religious instruction.

  ROM.15.17-21

• Doctrine

  Christian Fellowship

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

  ROM.15.24

• Glossary Term

  Church

  Never मन्दिर (Hindu temple) and never मठ (a monastic institution attached to a particular deity or guru lineage, common across Mithila's Shaiva and Vaishnava centers).

  ROM.15.26

• Doctrine

  Church as God's People

  New covenant community, not a ritual institution modeled on the region's math (monastic) structures or a caste-segregated assembly.

  ROM.15.26

• Glossary Term

  Covenant

  Relational covenant bond, more than a legal contract (अनुबंध).

  ROM.15.12

• Glossary Term

  David

  Follows established North Indian Bible-translation proper-name form.

  ROM.15.12

• Doctrine

  Davidic Covenant

  Requires explicit Old Testament background explanation; no analogous royal-lineage covenant concept exists in Mithila's own kingdom-narrative tradition (the House of Janak).

  ROM.15.12

• Doctrine

  Evangelism

  Given the region's strong Vaishnava/Shaiva devotional identity and comparatively small Christian presence, evangelism must be framed as gentle proclamation and witness, not confrontation.

  ROM.15.20

• Glossary Term

  Exhort

  Context-sensitive: use विनती (entreaty) for beseeching; उत्साहित करब (encourage) for building up, using the native Maithili infinitive -करब rather than Hindi's -करना.

  ROM.15.2

• Glossary Term

  Fellowship

  Shared participation in Christ; समाज (society) is too generic-civic for this theological sense.

  ROM.15.24

• Doctrine

  Fulfillment of Prophecy

  Linear historical fulfillment (OT to NT), not the cyclical cosmic pattern (yuga cycles) in which a deity periodically descends to restore dharma, as in the region's own Ram-avatar narrative.

  ROM.15.8-12

• Glossary Term

  Gentiles

  Non-Jews.

  ROM.15.7-12

• Doctrine

  Gospel

  Must be distinguished from ordinary good news.

  ROM.15.19-20

• Glossary Term

  Gospel

  Sanskrit tatsama term shared across Maithili and Hindi religious registers; retained because it is already the rendering used in the limited existing Maithili Scripture portions.

  ROM.15.19-20

• Glossary Term

  Holy

  पवित्र = set apart for God, morally pure.

  ROM.15.16

• Glossary Term

  Holy Spirit

  CRITICAL: Never ब्रह्म (impersonal Absolute Reality of Vedantic philosophy) or परमात्मा alone (universal Self).

  ROM.15.16

• Doctrine

  Inspiration of Scripture

  Distinguish God-breathed Scripture from the devotional authority Mithila grants to Vidyapati's poetry and to the Ramayana/Puranic narrative tradition that supplies the region's own sacred stories.

  ROM.15.4

• Glossary Term

  Intercession

  Prayer offered on behalf of others through Christ as sole mediator.

  ROM.15.30-32

• Glossary Term

  Israel

  Proper name; follows established Bible-translation form.

  ROM.15.7-12

• Doctrine

  Kingdom Mission

  God's reign advancing through the gospel, not a political or dynastic kingdom -- a sensitive association given Mithila's own historic royal-kingdom identity.

  ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21

• Glossary Term

  Kingdom Of God

  God's sovereign reign, distinguished from political-kingdom associations -- a sensitive area given Mithila's own historic identity as the ancient kingdom of Raja Janak.

  ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21

• Glossary Term

  Law

  Torah/Mosaic law.

  ROM.15.8-12

• Glossary Term

  Messiah

  Transliterated term.

  ROM.15.8-12

• Doctrine

  Messianic Promise

  CRITICAL: Messiah is a specific Jewish Old Testament concept fulfilled exclusively in Jesus.

  ROM.15.8-12

• Glossary Term

  Mission

  Describes the activity plainly.

  ROM.15.15-24

• Doctrine

  Mission to the Nations

  Because Mithila has a comparatively thin history of mission-institution presence compared to other regions in this pipeline, 'mission' vocabulary must be introduced and explained rather than assumed familiar; prefer सुसमाचार प्रचार (gospel proclamation).

  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 in Christ's name; distinguish from ritual worship (puja) directed at an image or shrine.

  ROM.15.30-32

• Glossary Term

  Prophecy

  God-inspired declaration, distinct from astrological prediction (भविष्यफल).

  ROM.15.8-12

• Glossary Term

  Prophet

  God's spokesperson; distinguish from an astrologer/fortune-teller (ज्योतिषी), a live profession in a region where Panjikaran genealogists and astrologers both play matchmaking roles.

  ROM.15.4

• Doctrine

  Sanctification

  The Spirit's work of making believers holy, not the region's संस्कार purification rites or lineage-purity concerns tied to Panjikaran.

  ROM.15.16

• Glossary Term

  Sanctification

  Process of being made holy by the Spirit, distinct from the region's संस्कार life-cycle purification rites and from Panjikaran-linked lineage-purity concerns.

  ROM.15.16

• Glossary Term

  Seed Of David

  Romans 1:3; conveys physical lineage and OT covenant fulfillment, using the Maithili genitive -क and instrumental -सँ markers rather than Hindi postpositions.

  ROM.15.12

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Must not be confused with the region's monastic and ascetic renunciation traditions attached to Mithila's Shaiva and Vaishnava maths (monastic centers).

  ROM.15.16

• Doctrine

  Unity of Jews and Gentiles

  Directly challenges caste and lineage-based spiritual hierarchy embedded in Maithil Brahmin social structure.

  ROM.15.7-12