Passage

Romans 16

• Doctrine

  Christian Fellowship

  Shared participation in Christ; native ملګرتیا avoids the shirk-root resonance that Arabic and Persian equivalents carry.

  ROM.16.3-16

• Glossary Term

  Church

  CRITICAL: امت carries the loaded pan-Islamic community sense and must never substitute.

  ROM.16.1-16

• Doctrine

  Church as God's People

  CRITICAL: new covenant community, essentially never a public building in much of the Pashto-speaking world given severe restrictions on Muslim-background Christian gathering; this doctrine must be taught with a dispersed, often secret community in view.

  ROM.16.1-16

• Glossary Term

  Fellowship

  شراکت shares the same ش-ر-ک root as shirk (idolatrous partnership) found in Arabic and Persian; ملګرتیا is a native Pashto word (from 'malgeri,' companion) that avoids this resonance entirely.

  ROM.16.3-16

• Doctrine

  Obedience of Faith

  CRITICAL: submission is the defining category of the surrounding Islamic religious culture, compounded by Pashtunwali's own competing code of loyalty and obedience to tribal elders and the honor code (nang).

  ROM.16.26

• Glossary Term

  Obedience Of Faith

  Beyond the shared Islamic submission-as-core-category risk, Pashtun listeners may also hear 'obedience' as a question of loyalty to Pashtunwali's own competing code (nang, tribal-elder authority), which can conflict with formal Islamic law itself.

  ROM.16.26

• Doctrine

  Thanksgiving

  Shukr is also a major Islamic virtue; broadly compatible, low risk.

  ROM.16.4

• Glossary Term

  Thanksgiving

  Shukr is also a major Islamic virtue; broadly compatible, low risk.

  ROM.16.4