Thank God for religion (?) -- (5)

It is very important to be religious.

It is not very important whether I belong to some religious organization or not--whether I am a registered member of a certain religious organization or not. Some think as long as he is a member of this religious organization, he is guaranteed to go to Heaven. Anyway we will find out when we arrived in the other world. However, even before getting there we can examine whether I am to go to Heaven. (maybe need further discussion about this sometimes...)
The more important thing is what kind of life I am living--much more important than which religious group I belong to.

Some people want to belong to a certain religious organization because they want to "be saved." There is nothing wrong to want to "be saved." However, it is good to examine what it means to "be saved." (may need further discussion...) But one thing we need to be clear is our motivation: why do I want to be saved? For whose sake do I want to be saved? Is it for myself? Or, is it for God?

Thus, there are some people who belong to religious organization because they want to do the Will of God to build the Heaven (even at the cost of their lives) For those people it is more important to do the Will of God than to belong to a certain religious organization. For them what is their motivation? They may be interested in being saved but they may be more interested in saving God--or make God happy. They may want to exist for God instead of begging God to exist for them. Then they will be more interested in doing the Will of God than saying, "Lord, Lord, didn't I do this in your name? Didn't I do that in your name?" Why the Lord would have to say to them, "I never knew you. Depart from me, you evildoers!" (Matthew 7:23) while they are doing many things in God's name? This is a puzzling question, but when we try to focus on their motivation it makes more sense. It may not even be that the Lord judge them, but even before that it would be their conscience that would judge them, because our conscience always encourage us to live for others instead of wanting others to live for us.