A series of short, question-based study guides based around the New
Testament For Everyone series. The series is intended to encourage
church (and other) groups to study the Bible using the For Everyone
model. Experienced Bible study writers have selected excerpts and
written questions that guide users through the thought of Tom Wright on
each passage. These have been reviewed, edited and approved by Tom
Wright. Creation is in anguish. Paul's letter to the Romans, as well as
the merest glance at our world, shows this clearly. The Church shares in
the suffering, groaning in the tension between the 'already' of
possessing the fruit of the Spirit and the 'not yet' of our present
existence. Paul, however, also makes it abundantly clear that God
doesn't stand apart from the pain. Rather, he entered it through Jesus
and dwells in the middle of it in the Spirit. These studies present the
whole picture of a suffering, sinful world and God's deep love, still
working today to reconcile that world to himself.