Thank you for taking time to join Dr. Michael Youssef for this episode of Leading the Way.

In today's message, an interesting question.

Is God inclusive, insight, and encouragement into what it means in 2025 to be Christian?

The good works that Christian believers perform, they perform not so that they may be saved by

their works, no, they do that work as evidence of their salvation.

It is a thanksgiving for their salvation. But there's something

else here that is a vital importance. You see, we judge people based on all these accomplishments.

But that's how we judge people. God is not going to judge us that way. The proof of your love

for Jesus is not about all the big things or the great things you've accomplished,

but on the basis of how faithful you have been with what He placed in your hands.

Challenging words ahead in this episode of Leading the Way Audio.

Dr. Youssef will guide you into Matthew 25, where Jesus teaches about

separating the sheep and the goats. What does that really mean? Well, let's find out as we

join Dr. Michael Youssef as he offers a challenge to be faithful. In the last few decades, our culture has made several shifts in the wrong directions.

Most of those are very dangerous shifts.

One of the chief among these shifts in culture is that we have shifted from thinking to feeling. We have shifted

from absolutes to relativism. We have shifted from exclusivities to inclusivity. Let me give you an example. Now, when children play sports,

there's no winning or losing teams. Everybody gets a trophy. They don't want to hurt the

kids' feelings. Most of the teaching and education philosophies in public school, they're trying to remove the A's and

the Fs, and they want to give all the kids, all the kids, passing grade.

Why? They don't want to hurt the kids' feelings. As a matter of fact, it's happening in churches.

Many a church now has opted not hurting the non-believers' feelings, instead of inviting them to come and know

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