Don't Confuse Entitlement with Salvation

A Christian is someone who knows they need to be saved not only from their bad deeds, but also their good deeds.

We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. -Isaiah 64:6

Many people who sit in church think they are Christians because of their righteous deeds.This is where nominal Christianity comes from. For many who grew up in the church/Christian culture, salvation is no longer salvation--it's entitlement. Some believe they're entitled to salvation because of their righteous deeds.That's not salvation. Salvation is knowing that you're a sinner--that even your best deeds are disgusting to God, for they are unable to save you. Salvation is humiliation, seeing that you are desperately lost in your sin, under the wrath of God for your sin, and that your only hope is outside help.Jesus is that outside help. Jesus saves sinners. It's all of grace. Entitlement has zero place in Christianity.Jesus doesn't save the righteous and the entitled. Jesus saves the sinful and the desperate.

I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance. -Jesus