I have wrestled lately with ideas about what it means to be a Christian. Sometimes I it seems as if it is actually my greatest desire, and other times it like I do it because I have to. This seems to me like a very unfortunate attitude in the church.
Tony Campollo says it best when he asks “if there were no such thing as heaven or hell, would you still follow Jesus?”
Ill warn you that if you seriously consider that question for a while it has the potential to strike hard at the foundations of your faith. As believers we need to know what we believe, why we believe, and what that means for our lives. It seems like the church as a whole really gets the fact that we were saved from something, but what would happen if we embrace the fact that we were saved for something.
Seriously if we as a whole not only acknowledged that but embraced it, what would happen in the world? Maybe this generation of Christians would lead the fight against malaria. Maybe we will end the widespread belief that Christians hate gays and want to kill abortion doctors.
Don’t get me wrong, we should be eternally grateful that we were saved from Satan’s grasp, but we should also remember that we are saved for something greater than any other calling. “To bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;” Isaiah 61. That is what Jesus did.

Ephesians 2:10 (New International Version)
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.