---
title: "Saved: Salvation Foundations"
category: "theology"
description: "What God does when He saves you, one doctrine a week: why you need saving, grace, faith, repentance, justification, adoption, being made holy and assurance."
tags: ["salvation", "grace", "faith", "assurance", "audience/teaching", "small-groups"]
draft: false
primary_passage: "Ephesians 2:1-10"
series:
  cut: foundations
  sessions:
    - study: sin/why-we-need-saving.md
      why: "God's commands are for your good; every one of us went our own way, and God came looking: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
    - planned: "Grace"
    - study: salvation/faith.md
      why: "Leaning your whole weight on God and on what He has finished in Jesus, with Hebrews 11's witnesses around you."
    - planned: "Repentance"
    - planned: "Justified"
    - planned: "Adopted"
    - planned: "Made Holy"
    - study: salvation/assurance-of-salvation.md
      why: "The ground of salvation, and the confidence Scripture says it gives."
    - study: salvation/saved-as-through-fire.md
      why: "Saved, though only as through fire: what a believer's building is tested for, and snatching the drifting out of the flames."
date_created: 2026-10-22
date_modified: 2026-10-23
ai_provider_models:
  - anthropic/claude-opus-5.5
---

# Saved: Salvation Foundations

**In one sentence:** God saves you by His grace through faith in His Son Jesus (Ephesians 2:8-9):
He declares you righteous, adopts you as His child, makes you holy by His Spirit and keeps you, so
you can know you are His.

The weeks follow the order of Ephesians 2:1-10: dead in sin, made alive by grace, saved through
faith, and created in Christ Jesus for good works. The weeks marked *coming* are being written; the
series can be run now with the published weeks, or in full once they are.

## The weeks

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