Communicating with Him

[Drich]

With all due respect, this almost sounds like the No True Scottsman fallacy. I was a reborn Christian and even saved up my pennies to do missionary work in Thailand.

How so? there are very finite and well defined parameters to define Christianity and the Christian faith. The no true Scotsman fallacy does not contained documented parameters.

Personally, I used to like Matthew's version because of the extra lines "your Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven".

In Luke the parable explains in great detail the premiseise in which you are to approach God and at the end issues a promise. (One you can hold God to) Mat's account does not.

My missionary work apparently didn't count for anything though.

I spent 8 years as one and truly believe I was as lost then as i was before I went to church. your work does not make you Christian. It is a matter your heart.

For we are told: 21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

Here Christ describes those In the Faith who have done all of the Big ticket showings of christianity, and yet still do not know God. Again it is a matter of your heart and not your works.