How to Get Saved

Our salvation is through the blood shed of Jesus Christ that paid for our sins in full. Most people today get the salvation mixed up saying we have to do works for our faith to earn heaven. Here is the simple formula, yes works and getting baptized in water is a good thing to sow as a sacrifice to Jesus but not required to get saved, doing works sums up for getting rewards in heaven like crowns not for salvation, the salvation part is a gift from Jesus Christ not something to earn your way to Heaven.

The "Works-Centered Gospel"
Man’s living testimony will always manifest the kind of gospel he believes. A perverted gospel will produce perverted believers. A works-centered message will produce crippled people that live in a devastating bondage to their own struggles. There is no lasting victory in the flesh’s effort to keep the laws of righteousness. The prayer life of those in a works-centered faith is paralyzed by the helplessness of flesh. Most of these dear people are constantly backsliding because of the pull of the appetites of the flesh. They struggle and struggle because their hearts yearn for purity, but try as they may; the flesh-produced purity has no lasting satisfaction.

There are many different expressions of the "works-centered gospel." The "Jesus only" sect demand "water baptism" and "speaking in tongues" before one can be assured of salvation. Coupled with the above is a rigid separation from the world, all of which must occur before salvation is assured. Of all my acquaintances among these dear people, "the bondage and fear by which they live is heartbreaking." They are warned that if they leave this narrow group, judgment will quickly follow. Those who leave are usually crippled beyond any hope of recovery. Others, who rebel against this bondage within their ranks, become hard and almost unreachable for the simple Gospel of Jesus Christ and its transforming powers. "Legalism" is a devastating power against the human spirit.

http://www.pawcreek.org/end-times/saving-gospelThere are many forms of "works-centered" religion. Promise Keepers has prospered right in the midst of the liberal church world; yet, it is sheer legalism.

The promises connected to Promise Keepers are nothing but hybrid works being produced by the psychological schemes of hyper driven rallies and small group therapy. The very need of such schemes to produce the desired results makes the churches connected suspect. Something is wrong when righteousness and godly manhood is not the normal result in a supposed Bible-believing church. Paul, the Apostle, would have driven this crowd out of the New Testament church. He would have said, "O foolish Galatians (religionists), who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?" (Galatians 3:1-3).

In this crazy day we have more and more of the works-centered deception, mixed with the liberal lifestyle of worldliness and compromise. While the liberals decry the legalists, they are resorting to legalism to try and save their liberalism. A liberal approach to Scripture literally robs the church of its spiritual life and then in desperation the same crowd must resort to some kind of superficial commitment to get the dedication needed to keep the ship afloat. Crazy world! Please remember that any form of legalism in maintaining the Christian faith cannot produce spiritual life. A works-centered faith is going to produce troubled people without stability and heartfelt joy that must be constantly propped up.

Source http://www.pawcreek.org/end-times/saving-gospel