Passage

Romans 12

• Doctrine

  Christian Identity in Christ

  Identity located in union with Christ, not in ethnic, clan, or traditional religious identity, nor in nominal cultural-Christian or cultural-Muslim confessional labels.

  ROM.12.5

• Glossary Term

  Church

  kanisa is the standard, well-established Christian term (distinct from msikiti, mosque, which must never be confused).

  ROM.12.4-5

• Doctrine

  Church as God's People

  kanisa readily defaults to a specific institutional or denominational reference; Romans' sense of the whole people of God across all congregations and denominations needs explicit framing, and must remain clearly distinct from msikiti (mosque) in any comparative discussion.

  ROM.12.4-5

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Must not be confused with traditional initiation rites or ritual dedication to a particular spirit or shrine, nor with Islamic ritual consecration; biblical 'set apart' in Romans is devotion to God while remaining fully engaged in ordinary life.

  ROM.12.1-2

• Doctrine

  Spiritual Gifts

  Spirit-given enablements must be clearly distinguished from uwezo wa kichawi (witchcraft power), given the real and active presence of traditional beliefs in witchcraft and traditional healers across much of the Swahili-speaking interior.

  ROM.12.6-8

• Glossary Term

  Spiritual Gifts

  vipawa vya Roho ('gifts of the Spirit') is standard evangelical Swahili usage.

  ROM.12.6-8