Nominal Christianity, with its distorted focus on cheap grace, has denigrated good works, believing they are antithetical to salvation. Even though God's people are not justified by good works, good works are the tool or honing process with which God Almighty perfects His chosen saints in the life-long process of sanctification. The hatred toward any kind of works has blinded many to God's truth. The Scriptures reveal that God has high moral standards, expecting His called-out ones to imitate Him as they are led through the perfecting sanctification process. Both Paul and James emphatically declared that God desires doers rather than assenting 'believers.' Paul, in his writing of Titus, demonstrated that he was not a peddler of no works theology, but emphasized that works are tools, helps, or aids in developing godly character by jettisoning destructive carnal habits, replacing them with godly character, practicing charity, putting others needs before ours. Continuously learning to maintain good works should be a major part of our lives, right alongside of grace. The works we maintain are how we respond to God's grace. The offspring of Jacob currently live in a venue not terribly different from Crete of Paul's time, thoroughly self-absorbed and disdainful of others. Far from being a 'grace only' preacher, Paul encouraged works as a response to God's merciful calling, reminding the Cretans and us that the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit leads to works that are good and profitable to all men. Paul emphasized that we 1.) live up to God's standards (living like Christ), 2.) remain thankful for God pulling us out of this sinful world, and 3.) respond to His grace by works, becoming living sacrifices to God and our spiritual siblings, imitating Almighty God.