Thank you for your shut down of the typical straw man so often set up to dispute sola fide. If we actually understand who Jesus is and the sacrifice He made for our sins - I mean deep-down-in-the-gut getting it - how can we NOT also surrender our lives to Him? Once we understand that He is the Creator of the universe and He humbled Himself to enter into our experience of being a human being so that He could redeem us from eternal damnation separated from Him, how could we possibly imagine that our lives could ever be the same again?
We receive Jesus as Savior and Lord because He IS both. The sheer magnitude of understanding His calling to us and of His knowing us before the foundation of the world, conforming us into His image, is enough - or should be - to keep us ever in humble gratitude and love for His great mercy and grace. Anyone who says he is a believer in Christ, but who has had no deep-down heart change so that he can't help but notice it, should examine his heart to see if he is really in the faith. It is a serious and life-changing decision and one that we couldn't turn back from even if we tried. The indwelling Holy Spirit testifies to our spirits that we ARE the children of God. Praise be to Him! We must never treat the grace of God as meaningless. He saved us for HIS purposes and we will have all eternity to thank Him.
And it is the very system that boasts, "you believe in faith alone; we believe in faith and works" that comes in about last in commitment and unity in basic moral beliefs, due to a lack of that regeneration and relationship with the Lord, with Scripture being the supreme authority as the wholly inspired Word of God.