One day while sitting in a garden a young philosophy student heard a voice call out "Take and read" the young man picked up his Bible and after reading the passage he had a profound conversion. Later he was named Bishop of Hipo in North Africa and is better known as St. Augustine.
About 500 years ago a young Augustinian Monk read the following passage "The Just shall live by faith". Soon afterwards Martin Luther launched the Protestant Reformation.
St Paul's letter to the Church at Rome has influenced great thinkers and saints for nearly 2000 years. How can this book help us to understand God's plan for us? Why does this book help us to understand our seperated brothers and sisters? Is there really Roman Catholicism in this favorite book of evangelicals?
Find out by attending our Faith Sharing Verse by Verse Bible Study of the Book of Romans this fall! Series begins August 28 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Chapel.