Passage

Romans 16

• Doctrine

  Christian Fellowship

  Shared participation in Christ; no significant doctrinal risk beyond keeping it distinct from merely social or ethnic community bonds.

  ROM.16.3-16

• Glossary Term

  Church

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

  ROM.16.1-16

• 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.16.1-16

• Glossary Term

  Fellowship

  ushirika conveys shared participation/communion well and is the standard Christian term (also used for the Eucharist as Ushirika Mtakatifu).

  ROM.16.3-16

• Doctrine

  Obedience of Faith

  Obedience that flows from faith, not a separate meritorious submission-to-rules framework; Islamic-influenced readers in particular may default to a submission-to-law reading (Islam literally means 'submission') rather than obedience flowing from prior faith.

  ROM.16.26

• Glossary Term

  Obedience Of Faith

  Romans 1:5 and 16:26.

  ROM.16.26

• Doctrine

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term, shared as Islamic vocabulary too.

  ROM.16.4

• Glossary Term

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term, shared as Islamic vocabulary too (shukrani/shukr).

  ROM.16.4