Tim Staples - God's Grace and Good Works

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How can we understand the role of God's grace in our good works? Tim Staples answers a caller on Catholic Answers Live.
Tim Staples is Director of Apologetics and Evangelization here at Catholic Answers, but he was not always Catholic. Tim was raised a Southern Baptist. Although he fell away from the faith of his childhood, Tim came back to faith in Christ during his late teen years through the witness of Christian televangelists. Soon after, Tim joined the Marine Corps.
During his four-year tour, he became involved in ministry with various Assemblies of God communities. Immediately after his tour of duty, Tim enrolled in Jimmy Swaggart Bible College and became a youth minister in an Assembly of God community. During his final year in the Marines, however, Tim met a Marine who really knew his faith and challenged Tim to study Catholicism from Catholic and historical sources. That encounter sparked a two-year search for the truth. Tim was determined to prove Catholicism wrong, but he ended up studying his way to the last place he thought he would ever end up: the Catholic Church!
He converted to Catholicism in 1988 and spent the following six years in formation for the priesthood, earning a degree in philosophy from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Overbrook, Pennsylvania. He then studied theology on a graduate level at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland, for two years. Realizing that his calling was not to the priesthood, Tim left the seminary in 1994 and has been working in Catholic apologetics and evangelization ever since.
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[@josephross1900]

This video is very helpful. I am getting ready to have a little debate with a friend of mine on Grace vs Works and this video was very helpful.

[@markmcauley1701]

? Sorry, you didn't finish the verse in Ephesians... "Not by works so that no man can boast"? It sounds that you are still trying to earn your salvation.

[@integrityraw3529]

If there is a way to heaven by works, why did he put his dear Son to all that pain and grief? Do you dare to put your miserable life in comparison with the life of God's obedient Son, who gave himself even to death? You insult the wisdom of God and the love of God. There is no attribute of God which self-righteousness does not impugn. It debases the eternal perfections which the blessed Saviour magnified, in order to exalt the pretensions of the creature which the Almighty spurns as vain and worthless. - C. H. Spurgeon