Passage

Romans 16

• Doctrine

  Christian Fellowship

  Shared participation in Christ, not clan-bounded brotherhood (walaaltinimo) that would otherwise implicitly exclude believers from other clans.

  ROM.16.3-16

• Glossary Term

  Church

  Kiniisadda is the established, unambiguous Somali word for the Christian church, distinct from masjid (mosque) and its associated congregational structures.

  ROM.16.1-16

• Doctrine

  Church as God's People

  New covenant community that gathers believers across clan lines, a genuinely countercultural model in a society organized so thoroughly around qabiil.

  ROM.16.1-16

• Glossary Term

  Fellowship

  Shared participation in Christ.

  ROM.16.3-16

• Doctrine

  Obedience of Faith

  Obedience flowing from a faith relationship already secured by grace, not hufnaanta diinta (religious duty-performance) that itself establishes standing before God.

  ROM.16.26

• Glossary Term

  Obedience Of Faith

  Romans 1:5 and 16:26.

  ROM.16.26

• Doctrine

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term shared with everyday gratitude-to-God vocabulary; low doctrinal risk and a genuine point of resonance.

  ROM.16.4

• Glossary Term

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term shared with everyday Islamic-influenced gratitude vocabulary (mahad Alle).

  ROM.16.4