Passage
Romans 12
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Doctrine
Christian Identity in Christ
Identity located in union with Christ, not in any one confessional jurisdiction (OCU, UOC, Greek Catholic, or Protestant) or in national identity itself, however important the latter legitimately is in the current context.
ROM.12.5
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Glossary Term
Church
CRITICAL: церква is the only viable term but is an acutely live, politically contested word in contemporary Ukraine, not merely a default-institutional-reading risk as in more religiously homogeneous contexts.
ROM.12.4-5
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Doctrine
Church as God's People
CRITICAL: церква is an acutely live, politically contested term in contemporary Ukraine, not merely a default-institutional-reading risk.
ROM.12.4-5
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Doctrine
Separation unto God's Service
Must not be read as a call to formal monasticism, a real and historically significant path in both the Orthodox and Greek Catholic traditions (including Ukraine's own distinctive monastic heritage centered on the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra).
ROM.12.1-2
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Doctrine
Spiritual Gifts
Spirit-given enablements must be clearly distinguished from екстрасенсорні здібності (psychic/paranormal abilities), a persistent post-Soviet folk-cultural category across the region.
ROM.12.6-8
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Glossary Term
Spiritual Gifts
духовні дари is standard evangelical Ukrainian usage.
ROM.12.6-8