Salvation is a product of relationship. Christianity is not a fire escape. Living a life for Christ is relationship. Salvation is not the end. Relationship is the end.
Salvation is a benefit of the relationship.
We're not going to heaven to live eternally with Christ so we can fling ourselves about the Great City rejoicing that we didn't end up in hell. That's not it. When we are there, free of this world and its cares, we will fully be able to focus on the ultimate and uninterupted relationship with Him. The enemy has caused us to get so enthralled with so many fine points, details and temporal matters that we only see hundreds of little, tiny pictures and not the great big one that should be what we focus on every day. God is craving our relationship.