The New Church
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WALKING THROUGH ROMANS
A Theological Journey for Spiritual Formation
Walking Through Romans is a structured, in-depth learning experience designed to guide believers into theological clarity, spiritual maturity, and a deeper understanding of God’s faithfulness.
This series is not about surface-level teaching or passive listening. It is about formation—engaging the text historically, theologically, and practically so that faith is not only understood but embodied.
Each lesson builds on the one before it, moving participants through the full argument of Romans—from the reality of the human condition to the revelation of God’s righteousness, and ultimately into a transformed life shaped by faith.
HOW THE COURSE IS STRUCTURED
Each lesson is anchored in a specific portion of the text and explored through:
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Historical and cultural context
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Theological development
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Structured breakdown of the passage
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Clear synthesis of Paul’s argument
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Practical application for daily life
Participants engage through:
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Video teachings
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Downloadable Summary Notes
Session 1 – Setting the Tone
Participants are introduced to the foundation of the study by understanding how the book of Romans must be approached before it is read. This session establishes the historical, cultural, and theological framework necessary to interpret Paul’s letter accurately.
Learners explore the nature of Romans as a carefully constructed argument written to a diverse community navigating tension, and are guided through four key movements that reveal the purpose and direction of the letter.
Teaching Link starts at the 10:03 mark
Session 2 – The Gospel Revealed
Participants explore the foundation of Paul’s message by defining the gospel and understanding its central role in the letter. This session clarifies that the gospel is not abstract, but rooted in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Learners examine how Paul introduces his identity, establishes Christ’s authority, and presents faith as trusting allegiance, setting the stage for the rest of the letter.
Teaching Link starts at the 7:35 mark
Session 3 – The Human Condition Exposed
Participants examine Paul’s diagnosis of humanity, showing how truth is known but suppressed when the Creator is replaced with creation. This session highlights the progression from distorted worship to distorted thinking and ultimately distorted living.
Learners gain clarity on the human condition as a universal reality, revealing the need for the gospel to restore alignment with God.
Teaching Link starts at the 9:37 mark
Session 4 – The Human Condition Exposed (Cont'd)
Participants explore how the human condition is not limited to those without the law but also affects those who possess it. This session highlights the tension between knowing truth and living it, exposing moral and religious hypocrisy.
Learners examine how God’s judgment is impartial, accountability is universal, and true identity is defined by inward transformation rather than outward expression.
Teaching Link starts at the 9:30 mark
Session 5 – The Human Condition Concluded
Participants explore Paul’s final argument that the human condition is universal, impacting both Jews and Gentiles alike. This session brings clarity to the role of the law, showing that it reveals sin but cannot make people right.
Learners see that God remains faithful, yet righteousness cannot be achieved through effort, pointing to the need for a solution beyond human ability.
Teaching Link starts at the 10:00 mark
Session 6 – Righteousness Disclosed
Participants explore the turning point of Paul’s argument, where God’s righteousness is revealed apart from the law. This session shifts from human inability to divine provision, showing how right standing with God comes through faith in Jesus Christ.
Learners examine justification, grace, and redemption, gaining clarity that righteousness is received, not earned, and that God has made a way for all to be made right.
Teaching Link starts at the 8:15 mark
Session 7 – The Priniciple of Faith
Participants explore how righteousness is credited through faith using Abraham as the model. This session highlights faith as active trust in God’s promises, not dependent on works or external markers.
Learners see how faith positions them to rely on God beyond what they see, anchoring their identity in His promise rather than their circumstances.
Teaching Link starts at the 8:47 mark
Session 8 – Righteousness Experienced
Participants explore what happens after righteousness is received by faith, focusing on the real-life results that flow from being made right with God. This session highlights how faith produces peace with God, access to grace, and a confident hope that extends beyond present circumstances.
Learners examine how pressure develops endurance, character, and hope, while also gaining clarity on God’s demonstrated love through Christ and the security found in reconciliation. This session reveals that faith is not only believed, but lived, producing tangible results in both present reality and future assurance.
Teaching Link starts at the 10:40 mark
Session 9– Adam & Christ: The Juxtaposition
Participants explore Paul's comparison between Adam and Christ, examining how sin, condemnation, and death entered through one representative while grace, justification, and life come through another. This session highlights the contrast between humanity's broken condition and God's restoring work through Christ.
Learners discover that while all people experience the effects of sin, grace exceeds the damage. This session reveals that brokenness does not have the final word, as Christ provides the pathway to restoration, righteousness, and life.
Teaching Link starts at the 8:50 mark
Session 10– Grace and Freedom: Dead to Sin
Participants explore the relationship between grace and transformation, focusing on Paul's teaching that grace is not permission to continue in sin but power to live differently. This session highlights the believer's union with Christ through His death, burial, and resurrection.
Learners examine how grace breaks sin's dominion, reshapes identity, and creates the possibility of new life. This session reveals that faith in Christ is not merely about being made right with God, but about being transformed by the grace of God.
Teaching Link starts at the 8:50 mark
Session 11– Grace and Freedom: Slaves to Righteousness
Participants explore Paul's contrast between slavery to sin and slavery to righteousness, examining how obedience reveals allegiance and shapes the direction of life. This session highlights the freedom that comes from belonging to God rather than remaining under sin's influence.
Learners discover how sanctification produces transformation through consistent submission to God's purposes. This session reveals that every path leads to an outcome, and that true freedom is found in the life that leads to righteousness, holiness, and eternal life.
Teaching Link starts at the 8:25 mark
Session 12– Freedom and the Law: Released Yet Revealed
Participants explore how the believer’s relationship with the law has changed through Christ. The law was holy and revealed God’s standards, but it also exposed humanity’s sin and inability to transform itself.
Learners discover that the law provided the diagnosis, while Christ provides the cure. This session emphasizes living in the new life of the Spirit and responding to God’s truth with honesty, healing, and transformation.
Teaching Link starts at the 9:31 mark
Session 13– Freedom and the Law: The Inner Conflict
Participants examine the internal struggle between knowing what is right and consistently doing it. Paul reveals that the law is good, but human weakness and the influence of sin often prevent knowledge from becoming obedient action.
Learners discover that desire and good intentions are not enough to produce transformation. This session highlights the importance of honest reflection, spiritual awareness, and depending upon Christ for the power to overcome the struggle within.
Teaching Link starts at the 8:54 mark
Session 14– Freedom and the Spirit: Life in the Spirit
Participants explore how the Holy Spirit accomplishes what the law and human effort could not. Through Christ, believers are freed from condemnation and empowered to move beyond lives governed by the flesh.
Learners discover how the Spirit reshapes the mind, strengthens believers to reject destructive practices, and confirms their identity as children of God. This session presents freedom as power for transformation and confidence that believers truly belong to God.
Teaching Link starts at the 8:45 mark
Session 15–Future Glory: Hope in the Midst of Present Suffering
Participants explore Paul’s teaching that creation, believers, and the Holy Spirit all groan while awaiting God’s promised restoration. Present suffering is real, but it cannot compare with the future glory God will reveal.
Learners discover that biblical hope is confident expectation that God will finish what He has begun. This session highlights the Spirit’s help during weakness and God’s ability to work through every experience to make believers more like Christ.
Teaching Link starts at the 10:40 mark
Session 16–Nothing Can Separate Us: Confidence in God’s Unbreakable Love
Participants explore Paul’s declaration that opposition, accusations, and suffering cannot overturn God’s purpose. Their confidence rests not in the strength of their hold on God, but in the strength of God’s hold on them.
Learners discover that suffering does not mean God has abandoned them. Through Christ, believers are more than conquerors, and nothing in the present, the future, or all creation can separate them from God’s unbreakable love.
Teaching Link starts at the 9:28 mark
