Fairly good, but he seems to have stopped halfway

"Sometimes I think we get the idea that if I do the right things, if I act according to God's commandments and so on, I earn God's love."

Yes, and sometimes people who hear this shortened version of the Gospel stop short! They get the idea that God doesn't care very much whether, upon hearing about God's warm and fuzzy love for us, we correspond faithfully and fully to His example & gift to us. 

As well-trained American consumerists, we tend to be overly influenced by what in management school is called "the power of the low performer"

This is the powerful idea that in any group the person who has greatest influence on the majority of people is not the high striver, performer, achiever, but instead the felllow 'bringing up the rear' (as they say in the Marine Corps).

Consumerist Americans look over their shoulder and say "at least I am not like x".

God wants us to be focused on Jesus, Who took us to the Cross and said love like Me