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Rock Point Church · all sermons
Pastor Bill Bush · Apr 10, 2022
Romans 16 is far more than an end-credits list of names — it is Paul's climactic declaration that the entire letter, all its theology and ethics, was always pointing toward this: people are the plan of God. From Phoebe to a slave named Ampliatus to the household of Narcissus, every name reveals that the gospel is meant to be lived out in deep, costly, cross-cultural community. The church is not an organization running programs for consumers; it is an organism of people called to love one another, serve sacrificially, and point the world to Jesus — because Jesus became a person, and died for persons, so that we might become His people.