Romans (The Story of God Bible Commentary | SGBC)
Overview
In Romans, Michael F. Bird provides pastors, students, Sunday school teachers, and lay people a clear and compelling exposition of the text in the context of the Bible’s overarching story—God’s story. Bird moves away from “application” language, which has been criticized as being too simplistic, instead encouraging discussion of how Romans and the Bible can be lived today.
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- Emphasizes the historical distance between the Bible and contemporary culture
- Encourages discussion of how the Bible’s story can be lived today
- Examines each book in the context of God’s story
Top Highlights
“In brief, Romans is a word of exhortation,30 a masterpiece of missional theology, culturally savvy apologetics, christological exegesis, pastoral care, theological exposition, and artful rhetoric—all designed to win over the audience to Paul’s gospel, to support his mission in Spain, to draw Jewish and Gentile Christians in Rome closer together, to strengthen them in the faith despite the perils of Roman culture, and to encourage his audience to identify with the apostle to the Gentiles as he goes to Jerusalem.” (Pages 11–12)
“What is new here is the overwhelming dominance of the Holy Spirit in cultivating holiness and empowering moral transformation. The Holy Spirit leads believers away from the flesh and guides them into their inheritance as adopted children of God.” (Page 256)
“Hence, the ‘righteousness of God’ is both attribute and action. The righteousness of God signifies the fidelity and justice of God’s character, the demonstration of his character as the judge of all the earth, and his faithfulness toward Israel in Jesus Christ. The righteousness of God, then, is the character of God embodied and enacted in his saving actions. It is a saving event that is comprehensive, and it involves vivification, justification, and transformation.” (Page 43)
“the Spirit gives the life that the law promised but could not deliver.” (Page 257)
“The gospel contains the ‘power of God’ in the sense that God actualizes his rescuing purposes through it. The gospel is a speech-act, in that it not only announces the way of salvation, but actualizes salvation in those who hear it with faith (see Rom 10:17; 1 Thess 2:13). The same power of God manifested in raising the Son (Rom 1:4), in creation (1:20), in the divine acts of redemptive history (9:17, 22), in keeping covenant promises (4:21), and in miraculous events (15:19) is also infused into the gospel. The gospel manifests God’s death-defeating, curse-reversing, evil-vanquishing, devil-crushing, sin-cleansing, life-giving, love-forming, people-uniting, super-über-mega-grace power that results in ‘salvation.’” (Page 41)
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The authors of this series study and probe the Bible as God’s story, to discern and then articulate how we can live the Bible’s story faithfully and creatively in the culture today. This series offers vital tools for you to understand the original context of biblical passages; to carry insights from the biblical world and ancient Near Eastern literature straight into your context today; and finally, to empower you to discern and communicate biblical insight to your small group or congregation.
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The Bible is the story of God and his dealings with humanity from creation to new creation. The Bible is made up more of stories than of any other literary genre. Even the psalms, proverbs, prophecies, letters, and the Apocalypse make complete sense only when set in the context of the grand narrative of the entire Bible. This commentary series breaks new ground by taking all these observations seriously. It asks commentators to listen to the text, to explain the text, and to live the text. Some of the material in these sections overlaps with introduction, detailed textual analysis and application, respectively, but only some. The most riveting and valuable part of the commentaries are the stories that can appear in any of these sections, from any part of the globe and any part of church history, illustrating the text in any of these areas. Ideal for preaching and teaching.
- Title: Romans
- Author: Michael F. Bird
- Series: The Story of God Bible Commentary
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Print Publication Date: 2016
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. N.T. Romans › Commentaries
- ISBNs: 9780310566175, 9780310327189, 9780310599067, 0310566177, 0310327180, 0310599067
- Resource ID: LLS:STRYGDCM66RO
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-09-26T21:36:18Z