Saturday, August 20, Romans ends Amen

Some manuscripts end with the disputed verse 24, others with 27 after more or less of chapters 15 and 16. In any event, they seem to and, as we will, with ‘Amen’. ‘So be it’. Period. Stop. That’s all she wrote. When can you say ‘Amen’?

Before you close the book, how would you sum up ‘the gospel according to Paul’ after ‘Reading Romans’ this summer? What does Paul say about sin and saved, Jews and Gentiles – and what do people say he says? Just as we read Paul, people ‘read’ us:

You’re writing a gospel, a page each day
With all that you do, and all that you say
People hear what you say, and see what you do,
So - what is the gospel, according to you?