text: John, you continue to shrink Jesus's message down...it really sounds rather "over the goal line" rigorist.
  
  God wants much more out of each of us while we're here.    He invested an enormous amount in showing us how to love as He wants and demands us to love:  The Crucifix..."take up your cross daily..."unless a grain falls and dies...".
  
  There are a lot of Jesus shrinkers here. 
  
  His message is far more grand, awesome and demanding. 
  
  We're not here to barely get over a goal line like our "are you saved" Protestant brothers and sisters have defined down the Gospel to...we're here to be other Christs!! 
  
  Alter Christus.  Ipse Christus.