Over the centuries, many well meaning but misguided people have substituted ceremony for true worship of God. We see it everywhere today. People get so caught up in rules, regulations and accepted duties that they forget that salvation has nothing to do with works, and everything to do with faith in our savior. That is a central theme in Paul's letter to the Romans, and we will once again be assured today that our salvation was paid for on the cross by Jesus Christ, and to believe anything else is to diminish what Christ did, and in fact, render it meaningless.