The Bible tells us without faith it is impossible to please God. The Bible tells us that we are saved by grace through faith. Over and over we are shown throughout Scriptures how faith is an essential to salvation, but too often we see imitations of faith, which often come disgused as pragmatism. How many times individuals in the church try to hide their unbelief with the mask of just being practical. Sadly so few in the church today actually understand that is nothing more than unbelief. The Bible gives too many examples of practicality being trampled under foot by faith for one to think following God will be something the carnal mind will easily understand. But the person of faith will constantly demonstrate the faithfulness of God as they walk with God by faith and not by common sense. Too many though today think they have a living saving faith while all along they can't even trust God for their daily needs.