Nickelback misses the point

I recently saw this picture

Now I'm sure most of you who are Christians are mentally trying to formulate something to argue this. Some of you may be thinking, "Good people still go to hell" If that is your response, please punch yourself in the throat and stop referring to yourself as a Christian; I'm tired of cleaning up the messes you make. In my thought process anyway, Christian should not be a title claim by individuals, but a label given by others because of your lifestyle. If such were always the case Christianity wouldn't have the reputation that it does today.

Moving on to my point. From what I can tell this picture is assuming that the point of life is to be a good person. That essentially following Jesus is supposed to make you "good" That assumption is what i disagree with. I'm sure others will argue that that's not the assumption, and I may be wrong, but that's what I'm seeing. If one believes in God then there are things that must would also be believed. Starting with God originally created everything. When everything was created there was Shalom, which is a Hebrew word commonly meaning peace, or even completeness. When everything started there was peace, unity, and love. All of us, if we're being honest, have had a part in disturbing those things in one way or another. Essentially that's what the Bible's talking about when it mentions sin, disturbing Shalom.

The point of following Jesus, isn't to be good, but to partner with God in restoring Shalom to this creation; Being a "good" person will naturally be a byproduct of that, but it's not the point. Just like the point of being in a band isn't to be famous. The point of being in a band is to work together with other people and attempt to produce something moving, a piece of art, an expression contained in music. Many people start with becoming popular/famous as their point in getting in a band, and they fail miserably coughNickelbackcoughcough. Just the same, there's people who decide to follow Jesus, and think that the point is to be a good person, and they inevitably get it wrong, and typically do a lot of damage.
If you start out thinking that by following God you're a good person, you then assume that those who aren't following God aren't good people; Then you feel better than them; Then you start telling them that they're not good people; Then no one wants anything to do with you or your god, because you're a douche.
If we start with the idea that we are trying to restore peace, unity, and love to Gods creation we shouldn't look at others as less than ourselves; We're all on the same screwed up playing field, trying to make it better. We're all essentially on the same team from a certain perspective, and we can work together to make this world a better place.

You may be thinking, "That picture doesn't really contradict what you're saying here" And no, it doesn't for the most part, but if you got this far then it succeeded in getting your attention.

Nickelback misses the point