Passage
Romans 15
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Doctrine
Christ-Centered Ministry
Ministry done in Christ's name, by his power, for his glory, not humanitarian service divorced from gospel proclamation.
ROM.15.17-21
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Doctrine
Christian Fellowship
Shared participation in Christ; avoid conflating with the specific creedal phrase 'a comunhão dos santos.'
ROM.15.24
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Glossary Term
Church
Distinguish Romans 16's gathered people of God from the capitalized institutional sense foregrounded in Catholic usage.
ROM.15.26
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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.15.26
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Glossary Term
Covenant
Unlike Spanish's pacto/alianza split by tradition, Portuguese Catholic and Protestant Bibles converge more on 'aliança.' Convey a relational covenant bond, not a mere legal contract.
ROM.15.12
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Glossary Term
David
Standard proper name.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
Requires explicit Old Testament background (2 Samuel 7); no analogous concept assumed in general Luso-Brazilian culture.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Evangelism
In a religious landscape with fast-growing Evangelical/Pentecostal movements alongside historic Catholic majority and mainstream Kardecism, use language of proclamation and witness rather than confrontational or sectarian framing.
ROM.15.20
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Glossary Term
Exhort
Standard term.
ROM.15.2
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Glossary Term
Fellowship
Use 'companheirismo' or contextual 'comunhão' for Romans' general fellowship sense; avoid conflating with the specific creedal phrase.
ROM.15.24
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear historical fulfillment (Old Testament to New Testament); requires OT background many nominal Catholic or culturally Christian readers were never catechized in.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Standard term.
ROM.15.7-12
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Doctrine
Gospel
Must be distinguished from Allan Kardec's widely known 'O Evangelho Segundo o Espiritismo,' which reframes the term as ethical teaching compatible with reincarnation.
ROM.15.19-20
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Glossary Term
Gospel
Standard term shared by Catholic and Protestant Portuguese Bibles.
ROM.15.19-20
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Glossary Term
Holy
Set apart for God and morally pure; applies to all believers, not only the canonized.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Holy Spirit
CRITICAL: must be taught as the personal third Person of the Trinity, explicitly distinguished from Kardecist 'espíritos guias'/'mentores espirituais' and from Candomblé/Umbanda orixás and spirit guides invoked and incorporated by mediums — both are mainstream, organized religious frameworks in Brazil, not marginal folk belief.
ROM.15.16
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Doctrine
Inspiration of Scripture
Kardecist Spiritism claims its own foundational texts were dictated by discarnate spirits through mediums (psicografia), a direct and well-known rival claim to revealed authority in Brazil.
ROM.15.4
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Glossary Term
Intercession
Romans 8:26-27 and 8:34 describe the Spirit's and Christ's direct intercession.
ROM.15.30-32
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Glossary Term
Israel
Standard proper name.
ROM.15.7-12
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Doctrine
Kingdom Mission
God's reign advancing through the gospel, not a political or cultural project tied to national Christian heritage.
ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21
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Glossary Term
Kingdom Of God
God's sovereign reign, not a political state or the institutional church.
ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21
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Glossary Term
Law
The Mosaic law/Torah.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Messiah
CRITICAL: Kardecist doctrine explicitly teaches Jesus as the most morally evolved spirit ever incarnated on Earth, a model and guide, rather than the unique, eternally divine Messiah promised in the Old Testament and confirmed by bodily resurrection.
ROM.15.8-12
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
CRITICAL: the unique, Old Testament-promised Anointed One fulfilled exclusively in Jesus, not Kardecism's 'most evolved spirit' framing of Jesus as an exemplary moral guide among many advancing spirits.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Mission
Standard term.
ROM.15.15-24
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Doctrine
Mission to the Nations
Standard term with low colonial-connotation risk compared to Spanish-speaking contexts; primary risk is simply low OT/mission-history literacy.
ROM.15.15-24
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Doctrine
Mutual Edification
Building one another up in faith; no significant doctrinal risk.
ROM.15.2
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Doctrine
Prayer and Intercession
CRITICAL: the Spirit and Christ intercede directly for believers (Romans 8:26-27, 8:34).
ROM.15.30-32
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration, not psicografia, the well-known Kardecist practice of mediums transcribing messages purportedly from the dead.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Prophet
God's spokesperson, not a Kardecist medium channeling messages from discarnate spirits, a common alternate frame for 'revelation' in Brazil.
ROM.15.4
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Doctrine
Sanctification
The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy in this life, not a Kardecist doctrine of gradual purification across multiple incarnations.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Sanctification
The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy in this life, not the Kardecist doctrine of a spirit's gradual purification across multiple incarnations.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Seed Of David
Romans 1:3; conveys physical lineage and covenant fulfillment.
ROM.15.12
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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.15.16
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Brazil's own history of racial and social stratification (rooted in its colonial and slaveholding past, the largest in the Americas) gives Romans' 'no distinction' claim direct social weight distinct from the caste dynamics relevant in South Asia or the indigenous/Afro-descendant hierarchies relevant elsewhere in Latin America.
ROM.15.7-12