https://sspx.org/en/news-events/news/avoiding-false-prophets-doing-good-works-4514
Try this. It is Faith and works.
Ah, just saw this one before I replied to the last one.
Thanks; I’ll look into it when I’m not about to sack.
12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 14For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
This precedes the passage your link sought to focus upon. The passage exclaims we are under Grace. So the works alluded to are not a means to become saved, they are to be the result of having been saved. THIS glorifies the One Who Died for our Grace gift, not us doing stuff we ought to do as members of His Body.
Upon reading your link, I am informed.
It unfortunately doesn’t quite answer the question I was trying to ask, though. Do works EARN salvation, or are works something that just should be done? To make a crude analogy, is there like a ledger that you have to balance before you’re allowed in, or what?
About 95% of what was in the link you posted could easily be taught in faithful Protestant churches after all, with the subtle but important difference being that we teach that faith alone saves, but that a faith that does not produce good works is no faith at all.
And I think I’ll appropriate that quote from Chrysostom for future teaching.