Passage

Romans 12

• Doctrine

  Christian Identity in Christ

  Identity located in union with Christ, not in the constitutionally significant fusion of Malay ethnicity and Islam in Malaysian law and popular usage, which makes leaving Islam feel to many Malay readers like leaving one's ethnic identity itself.

  ROM.12.5

• Glossary Term

  Church

  Gereja (from early Portuguese colonial contact, 'igreja') is an established, unambiguous Malay word for the Christian church specifically, distinct from masjid (mosque) and the more religiously generic jemaah.

  ROM.12.4-5

• Doctrine

  Church as God's People

  New covenant community, not a state-recognized religious body subject to the same civil/Syariah dual-jurisdiction distinctions that structure religious life in Malaysia.

  ROM.12.4-5

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Must not be confused with Sufi ascetic withdrawal or with keramat-site devotion practiced in traditional Malay folk Islam.

  ROM.12.1-2

• Doctrine

  Spiritual Gifts

  Spirit-given enablements for the church's benefit, not keramat (a venerated wali's miraculous grave-site power) or a mark of individual spiritual rank.

  ROM.12.6-8

• Glossary Term

  Spiritual Gifts

  Always pair karunia with rohani; keramat specifically denotes the miraculous power attributed to a saint's grave-site in traditional Malay devotional practice and must not be used.

  ROM.12.6-8