“What the “sad alumni” need to hear (perhaps for the first time) is that Christian failures are
going to walk into heaven, be welcomed into heaven, leap into heaven like a calf leaping out of its stall, laughing and laughing, as if it’s all too good to be true.

It isn’t just that we failures will get in. It’s that we will probably get in like that!
We failures-in-living-the-Christian-life-as-described-in-the-Bible will probably say
something like, “You mean it was that simple?!” “Just Christ’s cross & blood?! Just His
righteousness imputed to my account as if mine? You gotta be kidding!” “And all of
heaven is ours just because of what was done by Jesus outside of me, on the cross — not
because of what Christ did in me” – in my heart, in my Christian living, in my
behavior?!” “Well, I’ll be damned!” But, of course, that’s the point isn’t it? As a
believer in Jesus as your Substitute, you won’t be damned! No believer in Jesus will be.
Not a single one!”