Friends, today we wrap up our Romans preaching series.

And this community has done an amazing job over the last couple of months interrogating and unpacking the great unpacking and faithfully reckoning with the loud, bold Apostle Paul.

biblical author who isn't always that popular in this part of the church and it's been a couple of times over the last few weeks that I've been sitting here and someone's leant over to me and in a hushed voice they've been like, I kind of really love Paul.

And I've been like, yeah, me too, dude.

So in the reading today, Paul talks a lot about ministry and his ministry to the Gentiles, the non-Jews, spreading to this foreign, uninitiated majority to which he is an alien, the truths that transformed his own life.

I love Paul's zeal and his fire.