I would say that many turn to Christ as a ticket to heaven. Not that we ve lived perfect lives and deserve heaven, but we re trusting in the promise of what Christ did for us on the cross as our ticket into heaven. I would also say that many have never experienced the second part of the miracle of the Kingdom of heaven the true Biblical Community . To experience the first part, Salvation , that s our guarantee after the grave, but to experience the second part, to community with other believers, that s a reward we can experience now. All we have to do is participate.
True community is much more than just saying hi to each other at church and then going home.
I know you re busy, that s why you must think through your list of priorities, and if you believe God wants these things to be important to you, then adjust your time accordingly. I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. You know that when you were pagans, you were enticed and led astray to idols that could not speak. You have already spent enough time in doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in licentiousness, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry. They are surprised that you no longer join them in the same excesses of dissipation, and so they blaspheme.