Passage

Romans 12

• Doctrine

  Christian Identity in Christ

  Identity located in union with Christ, not caste, community, or the social-reform identity built around any single movement, however dignifying that movement has been for its members.

  ROM.12.5

• Glossary Term

  Church

  Established Marathi Christian term for the congregation.

  ROM.12.4-5

• 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.12.4-5

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Must not be confused with Hindu sannyasa (world-renunciation) or with Buddhist monastic ordination; biblical separation is devotion to God while remaining fully engaged in daily life and community, which is in fact closer to the Warkari lay-devotional ideal than to renunciate asceticism.

  ROM.12.1-2

• Doctrine

  Spiritual Gifts

  Spirit-given enablement; not merit-earned powers or yogic/ascetic siddhi.

  ROM.12.6-8

• Glossary Term

  Spiritual Gifts

  Always use the compound; वरदान alone (a deity's boon) and सिद्धी (a yogic/ascetic attained power) both wrongly suggest a merit-earned or self-attained ability.

  ROM.12.6-8