Romans - Week 26: Romans 16:1-27

This week Pastor Mel preached Romans 16:1-27, the final week of our series in the book of Romans. It's easy to skim the last chapter as a list of greetings, but every name Paul mentions shows the unified church he spent the whole letter describing: Jews and Gentiles, women and men, servants and city officials, serving side by side. Pastor Mel walks through Phoebe, the deacon and patron who carried the letter to Rome, Priscilla and Aquila, Andronicus and Junia, and Rufus, the son of the man who carried Jesus' cross. He shares why Summit affirms women in ministry while loving churches that see it differently, how our primary identity as sons and daughters of God brings down the walls between us, why we should talk to people instead of about them, and the promise that the God of peace will crush Satan under our feet.