I am Lutheran and would completely agree with your post. Faith is a gift of God given through the Holy Spirit through the Word, not anything from ourselves. Faith alone is our salvation.
Works are a result of our faith and completes our sanctification, sanctification can only come after one has salvation.
God Bless
re: “Works are a result of our faith and completes our sanctification, sanctification can only come after one has salvation. God Bless”
God bless you, too, Vegasrugrat.