The NEW Roman’s Road
I was raised on the Romans Road. The Romans Road is an evangelism tool made up of 5-7 verses pulled out of Romans to show people the way of salvation. That if they follow and believe this simple Road of 5 verses, God will save them (read the original Roman’s Road). So, following the popular and accepted model of pulling verses I thought I’d repave the Romans Road with new and neglected asphalt. So here is the new Romans Bypass, looking at Romans through the reconciliation of all things lens:
2:4 – Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?
3:3-4 – What if some were unfaithful? Will their unfaithfulness nullify God’s faithfulness? Not at all!
3:9 What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage? Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin.
3:23-24 – for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
5:6 – You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
5:10 – For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
5:18 – Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people.
5:20-21 – But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
6:10 – The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
7:24-25 – What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
8:1 – Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,
8:20-21 – For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
8:31 – What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
8:33-34 – Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
8:37-39 – in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
9:15-16 – “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
9:25 – “I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people; and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”
10:19-21 – “I will make you envious by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation that has no understanding.” And Isaiah boldly says, “I was found by those who did not seek me; I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me.” “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”
11:15-16 – For if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.
11:32 – For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.
11:33-36 – Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor? Who has ever given to God, that God should repay them? For from him and through him and for him are all things! To him be the glory forever! Amen.
14:11 – It is written: “‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will acknowledge God.’
15:7 – Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.
So relax. God has already paved the road for you. Believe it! And because of God’s love, live in and through love, freely loving because of the love that was given to you.
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