Passage

Romans 12

• Doctrine

  Christian Identity in Christ

  Identity located in union with Christ, not primarily in clan, lineage, or ethnic identity, however culturally significant these legitimately remain.

  ROM.12.5

• Glossary Term

  Church

  ibandla ('assembly/congregation') is preferred over isonto, which in everyday usage also simply means 'week' or 'Sunday' and more readily suggests a specific building or weekly service than the whole people of God Romans intends.

  ROM.12.4-5

• Doctrine

  Church as God's People

  ibandla should be understood as the whole people of God across denominations, not narrowed to a single congregation or building (isonto).

  ROM.12.4-5

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Must not be read through the lens of traditional initiation processes (such as the training and setting-apart of an isangoma following ubizo).

  ROM.12.1-2

• Doctrine

  Spiritual Gifts

  Spirit-given enablements must be clearly distinguished from amandla obungoma, the spiritual powers associated with traditional divination received through ancestral calling.

  ROM.12.6-8

• Glossary Term

  Spiritual Gifts

  izipho zoMoya ('gifts of the Spirit') is standard evangelical Zulu usage.

  ROM.12.6-8