We are saved by God’s initiative, because of God’s love, God’s righteousness, God’s kindness, and God’s mercy. For those who don’t understand or have not made sense of the gospel, but who have sought God—to love God, to do what God desires—the very act of seeking God is an expression of faith. Many conservative and evangelical Christians are surprised to hear that evangelical thinker C. S. Lewis seems to have held this view.
