The Romans Road is the gospel many of us first learned: all have sinned, the wages of sin is death, Christ died for us, confess and believe, call on the Lord. Those verses are true. This episode asks why a handful of lines from Romans 3, 5, 6, and 10 should be the front door of the whole Bible, and why Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount so often has to be managed after the fact. Greg traces the habit from Luther’s claim that Romans is the “purest Gospel” through the revivalist “plan of salvation,” and tells the story of preaching Matthew for fourteen months until a colleague wanted a six-week Romans reset so nobody would think they had to do anything. Justification gets you off the ground. The New Testament is about the trip: becoming like Christ. No popes, no councils — just the question of which page you start on.
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