I've been interpreting this as: faith is the entrance fee to spirituality. You have to believe correctly before God will accept your works. But maybe it means something simpler - without trust in God's goodness, you can't actually serve anyone, including God.
Selfishness is the natural state. Trust is what moves you to sacrifice, to serve, to give, to forgive. Without believing that God is good and that goodness matters, you're just optimizing for yourself.
So faith is foundational not because God is picky about belief, but because without trust in goodness, nothing else follows. That feels truer to me.
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