To believe in Him and not to believe in what He believed, not to love what He loved and not to desire what He desired, is not to believe in Him. To separate Him from the “content” of His life, to expect miracles and help from Him without doing what He did, and finally to call Him “Lord” and worship Him without fulfilling the will of His Father, is not to believe in Him. We are saved not because we believe in His “supernatural” power—such faith He does not want from us—but because we accept with our whole being and make ours the desire that fills His life, which is His life and ultimately makes Him descend into death and abolish it.
Alexander Schmemann
Of Water and Spirit
pg. 65