Romans is a letter that Paul certainly meant for all Christians to read, even though it specifically addressed the Christians in Rome during the first century. One of the main purposes of Romans is to lead Christians to live in harmony, “with one voice,” to glorify God together (Romans 15:5-6). The reason he wrote this letter is due to the fact that the early Jesus movement was made up of two dramatically different people groups with distinctive values in their past: the Jews and the Gentiles. At that time, people were streaming into the church (Jesus’s movement) from both groups, and they were having to learn how their new relationship with Jesus affected their relationship with one another. In other words, they needed to learn (with their heads, hearts, and hands) what it meant to live in the kingdom of God for real.