God's Plan for salvation
Romans 4: 13-end Imagine you are a church leader planning a visit to St Barnabas in Swanland. What would you write to them? What ground work do you want to do? Is everything OK, or are there some things that need sorting out? What are they getting wrong? You wouldn’t want to make them feel miserable or failures so they give up; you want to encourage them. What do you think they need to know? This was the position the Apostle Paul was in. It’s about AD57, so around 25 years after Jesus. After the events of Pentecost, the early church was growing in different regions and had spread to Rome. The book of Romans in our Bibles is actually a letter from Paul, written to the church in Rome - probably meeting together in 5 house church. Although it actually reads more like the sort of essay written at theological college. It’s quite dense, and the commentaries ...