to be saved from their sins by participating in a religious ritual, joining a church, giving money to the church, reforming their lives, doing good works, and a host of other substitutes for putting faith in Jesus Christ. “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us” (Titus 3:5). Naaman had another problem: he preferred the rivers back in Damascus to the muddy Jordan River.2 He thought his healing would come from the water, so it was logical that the