If you were asked, what's the greatest chapter in the Bible?

What would you say?

While every word of scripture is God breathed, and important for us to read and understand,

my guest today thinks there's one chapter and what he considers to be the greatest letter ever written

that might lay claim to the title, Greatest Chapter in the Bible.

In our interview today, I'm talking with Andy Nasselli.

Andy serves as associate professor

of systematic theology and New Testament

at Bethlehem College and Seminary in Minneapolis,

and as one of the pastors of Bethlehem Baptist Church.

He's also the author of Romans,

a concise guide to the greatest letter ever written from Crossway.

Let's get started.

Well, Andy, thank you so much for joining me again on the Crossway podcast.

It's my pleasure, brother.

All right, you call the Book of Romans the greatest letter ever written. Why?

Because it is.

Martin Luther and John Calvin and J.I. Packer, and they all say something similar. I think of it.

I'm teaching more systematic theology courses now, and I see that all roads in the Bible go through Romans when it comes to theology.

It's just supremely important to understand how the whole Bible fits together.

No other letter in the history of the world has received as much attention as this one has, And I think that's for a good reason. And it exalts in the gospel like no other. It's just glorious. So you'd

say the hype is well deserved. The fact that so many of us have heard a preaching series through

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