{"id":659,"date":"2026-11-13T19:09:42","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T01:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/?p=659"},"modified":"2026-11-13T19:09:42","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T01:09:42","slug":"epistle-to-the-romans-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"Epistle to the Romans (Overview)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May 13, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"378\" height=\"798\" src=\"https:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Romans-1_7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Romans-1_7.jpg 378w, https:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Romans-1_7-142x300.jpg 142w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Discussion Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Before we begin our chapter by chapter study, we would like to become familiar with the book as a whole.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1)<\/strong><strong>&nbsp; The ecclesia:&nbsp; Who founded the Roman ecclesia and what do we know about it?&nbsp; Was it composed of Gentile Christians or Jewish Christians?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2)<\/strong><strong>&nbsp; Timeline:&nbsp; When did Paul write Romans?&nbsp; Can we correlate it to any time in the book of Acts?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3)<\/strong><strong>&nbsp; Theme:&nbsp; Why did Paul write the book of Romans?&nbsp; Was it in relation to a specific issue? What is the overall theme of the book?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Discussion Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We are not told in the scriptures if a particular apostle founded the Roman ecclesia.&nbsp; We are told that Jews from Rome were present at the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:10) and perhaps someone who was there that day brought back the gospel message to the city.&nbsp; Around 49 AD the Roman Emperor expelled all the Jews from the city of Rome.&nbsp; We are told in Acts 18:1 that the Jewish brethren were forced to leave at that time.&nbsp; We can assume that when that ban was lifted 5 years later, many of the Jewish Christians returned to Rome.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>From various clues in the letter to the Romans and in Acts we can deduce that Paul wrote this letter while he was in Corinth.&nbsp; According to Acts 20, Paul was in Greece for 3 months (verse 2) before leaving for Jerusalem (verse 16) carrying with him the donation he had collected for the brethren (Romans 15:26-28).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Paul\u2019s purpose in writing this letter was to set forth in an orderly fashion his understanding of a Christians life of faith as shown in Habakkuk 2:4 \u201cThe just shall live by faith.\u201d&nbsp; While he was careful not to step out of his God-given jurisdiction as Apostle to the Gentiles (Romans 11:3), he felt obligated to explain why Christians could not receive justification under the Mosaic Law.&nbsp; He also had had experience in mixed ecclesias and wanted to give practical counsel (Romans 1:11) to the brethren in Rome who were once again going to be a mixed Jewish\/Gentile ecclesia.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 13, 2026 Discussion Questions: Before we begin our chapter by chapter study, we would like to become familiar with the book as a whole. 1)&nbsp; The ecclesia:&nbsp; Who founded the Roman ecclesia and what do we know about it?&nbsp; Was it composed of Gentile Christians or Jewish Christians? 2)&nbsp; Timeline:&nbsp; When did Paul write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}