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Robert the Red says:

Yikes! We've decided to postpone our post-Easter series and now are working to put something new together. We're overdue for a book study, so we've decided to tackle Romans. We decided this today, and need to get graphics generated, like, um, yesterday. So I thought I'd float it out to ya'll first. ("Ya'll" is 'Bama talk for "my peeps".)

Romans. Yeah. Broad subject. We're hitting lots and lots of different things in a 9 week series. The pastor kept leaning towards something about the basics of our beliefs, the foundations, etc. Which makes me yawn. It's more than an intellectual exercise. This is a book that goes from legal jargon of sin and unrighteousness and sin and payment to talking about life and light and the Spirit and transformation.

"I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile." - The word "power" is dynamis in the Greek - where we get the word dynamite from. I was thinking Spiritual Dynamite for a series theme, or something with dynamite. "A Survey of our deeply held beliefs" just doesn't capture the imagination.

Any other ideas or thoughts? How would you "theme out" Romans?
Posted at 8:38PM, 7 March 2008 PDT ( permalink )