tension with, the faith that justifies. Self-affirming works, those self-securing and self-assuring efforts, so resolutely resisted and turned away at the front door of justification, return by creeping in through the back door of sanctification. The “faith” and “works” that God intends to be joined together in those he has restored to his fellowship and service (cf., e.g., Jas. 2:18), through uniting them to Christ by faith, are pulled apart and at best exist in an uneasy tension, a tension that