The Result of this understanding has led the Evangelical to be a daily student of the Bible and to carry the burden of putting a copy in every hand and in every home. No other mediation is acceptable. Only a personal response to, a close relationship with Christ, are acceptable avenues of salvation. No externals, such as observances of works, can save because justification is through faith only . Not if it is practiced for the purpose of achieving salvation.
Good works are valid as the fruit of salvation.
A Christian is saved to serve not to serve to be saved. To engage in works just as the source of a rich spring of water that rushes down to refresh thirsty souls. That will save, not pietistic practices for the purpose of earning salvation. The Orthodox and Catholic Churches accept and practice Seven Sacraments and consider a Church is a Church when unbroken grace is transferred by the laying of hands on the servant of the Church. Evangelicals are not threatened by the continuity concept of grace.