Do you become a Christian by going through a set procedure or ritual?

Les explains that a person does not become a Christian by going through a certain set ritual, rules and regulations, or a set procedure. He points out that many denominations, his own included, expect people to go through a set of procedures, and then the church declares them Christians, saying they have nothing to worry about and are on their way to glory. But Les says that is not the case. We have to believe the Gospel, and then these other things have their rightful place. He is in favor of the local church, Sunday school, and all these things, but they are not to be used as a substitute for salvation. It has to be by personal faith in the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. In the surrounding text, Paul says he labored more abundantly than all the other apostles, yet not in his flesh, but by the grace of God with him; whether Paul or they, so they preached, and the hearers believed, which brought them out of their paganism.