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b'For this Mother\\u2019s Day weekend, Pastor Bryan Jarrett helps us look to the last chapter of the book of Romans\\u2026Romans 16. Most people who read this chapter rush through it because all they see is a list of hard to pronounce names that seem to have no relevance to rest of the Bible or to their lives. It\\u2019s a long list of Paul\\u2019s personal greetings\\u2026and if that\\u2019s all you see\\u2026you too\\u2026may miss the significance of the last few verses of Romans. \\n\\nThese farewell greetings in Roman\\u2019s 16 give us a window into the soul of early Christian life. Paul refers to people from every strata of society. Paul greets slaves and aristocrats, business professionals and unskilled laborers, government officials and people he led to the Lord in prison\\u2026people who in his culture would have never interacted together in a cordial or mutually beneficial way\\u2026and yet\\u2026the cross of Christ and the community of their faith transcended their cultural taboos and well defined social lines. Many of these people had nothing in common but their decision to follow Jesus\\u2026and that tie bonded them together stronger than any other. This diversity was the life of the early church.'