Paul concludes his passionate and hope-inducing letter by making it indisputably clear that God deserves all the credit, all the praise, all the recognition, all the glory from our joy-filled relationship with Him.

Paul concludes his letter with an extensive list of names for the Church of Rome to greet on his behalf. He does this because he loves and longs to be with these people who he is currently far from. What is a seemingly unnecessary list of names actually holds great significance — showing us what community is and why community matters.

Authentic Christian love is absolutely stunning. Paul writes in order to make it less rare. He wants us to understand that those of us loved by God, who have Jesus’ love flowing through us, happily and radically love others.

Paul insists we welcome, even warmly embrace, brothers and sisters whose expressions of faith might be radically different from our own.

Romans 9-11 -- The present lack of Jewish response to the gospel seems to argue against both the power of the gospel and the faithfulness of God to His people, but only part of ethnic Israel has always believed and God will one day deal again with all of ethnic Israel to demonstrate His faithfulness to her in spite of her unbelief.