I am not believing in church membership, perfectionism, baptism, Lord's Supper, works, etc., to take me to heaven.
Glenn and Perry:
Salvation does come through faith. We all know that. Where
we have a problem is coming to a conclusion about what
is incuded in a description of faith. We know that it has to
include more than simply believing, because as James says,
even the devil believes. We know that love is involved,
because love covers a multitude of sins. We know
repentance is involved , because without repentance there
can be no forgiveness. We know obedience is involved
because Jesus asked some who claimed to follow Him in
word but not in deed, "Why do you call me Lord, when
you do not do as I tell you to do?" The implication being
that He was not their Lord, because they did not obey. We
know that He must increase and we must decrease, and
we know that if we have no works, then we have no faith.
We cannot grab one verse out of God's word and ignore
the thousands of other verses that give us the whole
picture.
Blessings,
Terry
