Introduction A. Salvation Is a New Life Salvation is more than the forgiveness of sins. It's a transformation of a person's life. Not mentioning transformation leaves the cross as the focal point of salvation. As vital as the cross is to Christianity, it wasn't the early church's central focus.
Civilisation points out that the cross was a very late symbol in Christian art and culture.
Instead the church focused on the resurrection and the believer's new life in Christ. B. Salvation Results in Good Works Divinely implanted into each believer is a holy and incorruptible seed. It is impossible that it should not be ceaselessly doing that which is good. But he who does not do such works, is a man without faith. Faith is a living, well-founded confidence in the grace of God, so perfectly certain that it would die a thousand times rather than surrender its conviction.