Works Overflowing from Faith

Jones understands conversion as a gift from God. It’s something that we can never gain by works, but something we must accept by faith. He says that works, or disciplines, are important but that they are not the center of your salvation, they actually derive from your salvation. “Discipline is the fruit of conversion—not the root.” Unlike Jones’ thinking, most people seem to think that the harder they work, the more they love, and the more they try to live like Christ, the stronger of a Christian they are.

Jones’ way of thinking is more bionically based. Jesus says, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can get to the Father, but by me.” Faith in Christ is the only way to gain salvation. On the other hand “faith without works is dead”. Therefore if we are not doing works, if we are not practicing the disciplines, what we once believed in no longer stands because our faith would be dead. There is a balance you have to find between having faith and having works and letting your faith be the reason for your works.