When I began to read Romans a few days later, the words leapt from the page. I am one of those people that Romans 10:20 describes: the Lord showed himself to a man who was not asking for him. Though I could not follow every step of Paul’s logic (a persisting phenomenon!), the gist made perfect sense: • Sinfulness is universal and deadly—and describes me perfectly. • Jesus Christ bore our sins and our death in his own body. He died for me. • All lasting good depends on God’s decisive initiative in