On Sunday January 12 we started a new worship series on Paul’s Letter to the Romans. Between now and Easter St. Andrew’s will be working through Romans together with our friends from Ancaster Village Church (AVC). This introductory message is a conversation between Rev. John Read of St. Andrew’s and Rev. Aaron Gerrard of AVC. In the weeks that follow John and Aaron will take turns preaching for both churches.
In this opening conversation Aaron and John explore the question, “Why Romans?” Why talk about Romans today? What excites us about this letter to the early church, and what do we hope will come from this series? Why was Romans written in the first place? And why start Romans from the end (chapter 16) the way we have today?
Romans Resources: The Bible Project has an excellent overview of Paul’s Letter to the Romans in two short videos: https://bibleproject.com/explore/video/romans/ This same page will lead you to some additional resources. There are two helpful videos on New Testament letters in their ‘How To Read the Bible Series: https://bibleproject.com/explore/how-to-read-the-bible/ One of the commentaries John and Aaron are using for this series is Reading Romans Backwards by Scot McKnight.