The Churches of Christ often begin their study of the gospel by closely examining the conversions listed in book of Acts.
Acts 2:38 sound familiar?
Here the assumption is made that if a person will cooperate and follow all of the same moral and religious commands as the first century believers did at salvation, that this is the gospel and “by doing these things,” we can be saved as well.
Unfortunately such a preconceptual view of the gospel can, and often does, prevent someone from ever understanding how a person can be saved by faith in Jesus Christ, and thus can lead a person into a salvation theology that can only be characterized as justification by works.
Here Church of Christ Dilemma seeks to explain the oft-misunderstood doctrine of justification by faith to those in the Churches of Christ, and provide answers to many of the objections they have regarding this doctrine.
“We who are Jews by birth and not ‘Gentile sinners’ know that a man in not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified.” Galatians 2:15