IMHO, one beginning facet of the Christian walk boils down to the object of our thinking. Either it is on Him and Him alone or it isn’t.
Anything added to Him as our object of faith, voids the salvific work of that faith.
Any additional work in life is still possible, though not always profitable, again, through faith alone in Him.
He, our Lord Savior Christ Jesus is the object of our faith.
Well put.
Wed’s lesson at church was on Gal 3—the first 8-12 paragraphs or so. We are going through Galatians verse by verse.