Passage

Romans 12

• Doctrine

  Christian Identity in Christ

  Identity located in union with Christ, not in national/ethnic Turkish-Muslim identity, which is a strong and often fused cultural-religious category in this context (Turk = Muslim, in much popular usage).

  ROM.12.5

• Glossary Term

  Church

  Kilise is the established, unambiguous Turkish word for the Christian church building and body.

  ROM.12.4-5

• Doctrine

  Church as God's People

  New covenant community, not a cemaat in the politically loaded contemporary Turkish sense of an organized religious movement.

  ROM.12.4-5

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Must not be confused with Sufi-tradition asceticism or withdrawal (zühd) associated with evliya figures.

  ROM.12.1-2

• Doctrine

  Spiritual Gifts

  Spirit-given enablements for the church's benefit, not keramet (a Sufi saint's miraculous personal endowment) or a mark of individual spiritual rank.

  ROM.12.6-8

• Glossary Term

  Spiritual Gifts

  Always pair ruhsal with armağan; armağan alone is a generic gift/present.

  ROM.12.6-8