"For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do" - Ephesians 2:10. This presupposes that we were not saved just because we did something good, special, or amazing; on the contrary, after we have been saved we are then called to do good works.

Just as in every work we do in life, we need some training. We are first taught what is expected of us and sometimes supervised (rebuked and corrected-if that is what it takes) until we got the job done. Then, after passing through the learning curves, we are expected to show some...