The Apostle Paul wrote his Roman letter to twenty-first-century Christians as well as to first-century Romans. Written in what she calls her short, simple and show-me style, Melba Freeman uses Paul’s first-century letter to summarize both what believers have in Jesus Christ and what we are supposed to be doing with it. She says: If you study Romans you will be changed. You will be improved. You will, above all, be impressed with what a gracious God has done for undeserving sinners! Believers who come to that understanding then stand in awe of the gospel-they Catch a Gleam of Glory Bright! The twentieth-century theologian Anders Nygren has said: Romans has repeatedly been the instrument used of God for the renewal of His people… . When a man has slipped away from the gospel, a deep study of Romans has often been the means by which the lost has been recovered.