Study Guide: Filled - Radical

Paul’s Third Missionary JourneynRomansPrimary Information for Starters…4 Written to Jewish and Gentile Christians in Rome.4 Primary themes: The “righteousness of God” and the “gospelof God.”4 Threefold purpose:• To instruct the church in the basic doctrines of the Gospel.• To show the practical implications of the Gospel.• To garner support for expansion of the Gospel tounreached peoples.4 Key Verses: 1:16-17; 3:21-26; 8:28-39Practical Advice for Study…4 Overall structure:• The Need for Righteousness (1-3).• God’s Provision of Righteousness (3-8).• Israel’s Rejection of God’s Righteousness (9-11).• The Practice of Righteousness (12-16).4 Note the core Christian doctrines which fill this letter: revelation,depravity, justification, propitiation, faith, original sin, union with Christ,adoption, sanctification, glorification, the election of Israel, spiritual gifts,respect for government.- 14 -