Salvation

But nowadays there is a deadly, automatic quality about getting saved. It bothers me greatly. I say an “automatic” quality; Put a nickel’s worth of faith in the slot, pull down the lever and take out the little card of salvation. Tuck it in your wallet and off you go!” After that, the man or woman can say, “Yes, I’m saved.” How does he or she know? “I put the nickel in. I accepted Jesus and I signed the card.” Very good. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with signing a card. It can be a helpful thing so we know who has made inquiry. But really, my brother or sister, we are brought to God and to faith and to salvation that we might worship and adore Him. We do not come to God that we might be automatic Christians, cookie-cutter Christians, Christians stamped out with a die.

God has provided His salvation that we might be, individually and personally, vibrant children of God, loving God
with all our hearts and worshiping Him in the beauty of holiness.

- A.W. Tozer, Whatever Happened to Worship?, 13-14.