Doug,

You had written:

"If all believers are taught that this highest privilege is a given simply because they have received pardon for their sins, that all believers receive the same reward regardless of how they lived their lives, faithful or not.... disciples or not.... full of the Holy Spirit or not.... it removes the fear of the Lord, the motivation to deny themselves to follow Him and the desire to draw as close to Him in the most intimate fellowship possible."

That was so powerfully convicting.