and gifts, necessary for Salvation), and the means of grace (means by which God bestows saving grace on people to redeem and sanctify them—the Word of God and the Sacraments). Nevertheless, serious differences exist about the way of salvation. Conversion Conversion, Rome teaches, is helped by the efforts of a person’s natural will. Grace is the necessary help that God provides so that fallen people can use their inborn powers to play their part in conversion. Note the contrast: Scripture teaches that