Out of the blue, we land in the middle of one of the Apostle Paul’s thickest chunks of writing this morning. So here’s a little refresher course in Paul’s letter to the church at Rome. This was not a church that Paul had started, and he did not personally know the people who would receive the letter. At the time he wrote to the Romans, Paul had not yet been to Rome. His letter was a kind of introduction to prepare the Roman Christians for a visit Paul was eagerly planning to make. He had heard rumors about the church in Rome, however.