Romans 1:16-17 Paul’s Good News (The Theme of Romans) If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you turn with me to Romans, chapter 1, as we continue to work through Paul’s letter. In the first fifteen verses of this book Paul has successively given greetings to the Romans, shared a brief prayer report of what he had been praying about for them, and has given them an explicit expression of why it was that he wanted to come minister to them. We have seen the gospel of God at the very center of Paul’s concern. He’s spoken about the gospel already explicitly three times. He’s spoken of the gospel, he’s spoken of the gospel of God, he’s spoken of the gospel of His Son. And now in the passage we’re going to look at this morning, he actually sets out the theme of the whole book. In…