Big Bad Idea: 3 Myopia

MYOPIA:
There is another Focus problem in the church. It's when our eyes are pointed in the right direction, but not the right distance. The eyes point straight, but their little inner workings--their clockwork gears and springs aren't tight enough and don't reach the target. Short-sightedness.
Sometimes one of both eyes are just looking too shortly, focused on the Way, rather than the Person who is waiting at it's end.

You see, we'll end up walking this earth until the end of our days, each of us. And at the end of our journey, we'll be judged. This is basic Bible, and if you have a problem with it, that's because you just need to soak your head a while longer in Scripture. In the New Testament, the concept of our accountability for our deeds is REAL and ACTUAL. We have to walk in that reality and act as people who will stand before Jesus, one day.

By trusting in Jesus, we escape condemnation, but not the potential for loss. Check out 1 Cor. 3:13-15.
People losing out because they didn't faithfully work out their salvation...
"Work out our salvation?" Lew, you're a heretic, preaching works!
okay, but what about Philippians 2:12-13, where it tells us to work out our salvation with fear and trembling?

I'm telling you man,you gotta get your head soaking fresh in this stuff! Y'all people need to be soaking them aching heads! walking around in a fog. Not going to work out for you.

so... some of us are blithely escaping condemnation and frittering away our days, following blindly after leaders who are preaching a Jesus of social concern--human compassion motivating our obedience...
Often,you can find out if this is your leadership or your church if you run a litmus test on their view of Jesus' authority. Do they treat Jesus as the Dread Lord that He is, who will return to punish sinners who will not bow? Or do they play jesus like a buddy, who cries himself to sleep that the world is so cold to him? Hmm?

as nice as your "-ianity" might be, there's no "Nice-ianity". There's only "Christ-ianity".
We're talking the Son of man, here... The King of Kings. Lord of Lords... blood to the bridles... aaw, go soak your head.

You may hate what I'm saying. It may seem awful. But go and get into what Jesus really taught about how we are to follow Him, and you'll end up in the dust next to me. Quit your petty offense and get ready to die, because Jesus preached a cross for you.
Mad?
Be mat at yourself. Shortchanging the Gospel as you "over-read" it.
Be mad at your parents. They sold you to school.
Be mad at your pastors. Why aren't they preaching a less comfortable, popular Jesus?