Faith? Works? It is the age old question, built into Christianity from the earliest moments, when followers of Jesus questioned the gift of salvation delivered by the crucifixion because it was, quite simply, too easy. We want to work for our salvation (or perhaps, if we are being devastatingly honest, we want others to have to work for theirs.) We want to be in control of it, to earn it, and to know others have worked as diligently as we have so it's all nice and tidy and, well, you know... fair. We want choices - to choose whether or not grace is available, based on our own system of right and wrong. We want to be judge and jury where salvation is concerned, because it is much more difficult to reconcile the grace bestowed at the cross upon someone we see as unworthy than it is to accept it for ourselves. But God had other plans.
