The Word for Wednesday: On Judgment Day

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Therefore we also have as our ambition,
whether at home or absent,
to be pleasing to Him.
For we must all appear
before the judgment seat of Christ
(2 Corinthians 5:9-10)

The following list contains paraphrases of things I've heard over the years from other Christians. On rare occasions they were spoken directly and clearly. Most often they were stated obliquely and often behind someone's back.

If I have any faith at all, however, I have faith that they are things I will not hear on Judgment Day from my Lord and Savior, when I cast my crowns at His feet.

• You shouldn't have disagreed with other Christians so much. You were way too particular about the truth.

• You'd have gotten farther ahead if you'd spent more time studying church doctrines and other Christian books, instead of the Bible.

• You would have had more friends if you hadn't taken it all so seriously.

• You should have submitted to the "official" church authorities, instead of clinging to Me as your Head.

• Paul was just a guy. You put too much weight in what he wrote.

• You shouldn't have spent so much time separating truth and error.
  

• If you'd been more calvinist, arminian, lutheran, evangelical, baptist, ecumenical, inclusive, relevant, emerging, reforming, seeker-sensitive, green or purpose-driven, you'd have fit in better.

• You shouldn't have taken My words so literally. I didn't really mean them.

• You should have spent more time trying to please people and less trying to please Me.