Passage

Romans 12

• Doctrine

  Christian Identity in Christ

  Identity located in union with Christ, not in inherited cultural Catholic identity by birth or in a spirit's accumulated moral standing across past lives.

  ROM.12.5

• Glossary Term

  Church

  Distinguish Romans 16's gathered people of God from the capitalized institutional sense foregrounded in Catholic usage.

  ROM.12.4-5

• Doctrine

  Church as God's People

  The new covenant community gathered around Christ, distinct from the capitalized institutional sense of 'a Igreja' foregrounded in Catholic usage.

  ROM.12.4-5

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Risk of conflation with the Catholic category of 'vida consagrada' as a specially set-apart class, rather than the calling of every believer.

  ROM.12.1-2

• Doctrine

  Spiritual Gifts

  Spirit-given enablements for the church; must be distinguished from Kardecist mediunidade and Candomblé/Umbanda gifts of spirit incorporation, both mainstream practices in Brazil.

  ROM.12.6-8

• Glossary Term

  Spiritual Gifts

  Spirit-given enablements for the church.

  ROM.12.6-8