Passage

Romans 16

• Doctrine

  Christian Fellowship

  Shared participation in Christ; note the root-resonance between mosharekat and shirk (idolatrous partnership), inherited into Persian via Arabic.

  ROM.16.3-16

• Glossary Term

  Church

  امت (ommat) is the loaded pan-Islamic community term and must never substitute.

  ROM.16.1-16

• Doctrine

  Church as God's People

  New covenant community, not primarily a physical building - Persian-language congregational worship for Muslim-background believers is heavily restricted in Iran, so this doctrine must be taught with the underground house-church reality in view.

  ROM.16.1-16

• Glossary Term

  Fellowship

  Shares the same ش-ر-ک root as shirk (idolatrous partnership) inherited into Persian via Arabic; the resonance is uncomfortable but the term is established and context disambiguates.

  ROM.16.3-16

• Doctrine

  Obedience of Faith

  CRITICAL: submission/obedience is the defining category of the surrounding Islamic religious culture, shared fully by Persian Shia Islam; must be taught consistently as fruit, never ground, of right standing.

  ROM.16.26

• Glossary Term

  Obedience Of Faith

  As in Arabic, submission/obedience is the defining category of the surrounding Islamic religious culture; must be taught as faith's fruit, never its ground.

  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 category; broadly compatible, low risk.

  ROM.16.4