You have captured it right here.
Sadly, even if you have a true conversion experience if you immerse yourself in false teachers like Sproul, Washer (ugh) et. al you will soon be in living in religion.
There is a way to escape for every believer who refuses to face the fear and trembling that comes to those who God wants to manifest as His representative in the Devil's world. Religion offers them solace to say they are for God, while posing no threat to the Devil's controlling the minds of men.
Religion is Satan's invention. He will take the Bible and create different religions with it to appeal to what is preferred by different kinds of people.
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine.
Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great
number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 2 Timothy 4:3
We need to be careful, too.
For Satan wishes to form a religion for our mindset too.
To pull those away from the strait and narrow into a more broad-minded approach to better appeal to those
who prefer to compromise, to better make friends. But, that only lands one in a superficial place without God,
but done in the name of love as its banner.
That is why Jesus told us...
"Only a few find it.
Note carefully what He said!
"Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it."
He did not say...
Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to salvation, and there are few who find it."
He spoke of finding LIFE!
The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.
I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more
abundantly." John 10:10
He wants our Cup to be overflowing with the capacity for life.
The way to finding
life more abundantly is what He desires for all believers to have.
But, He said that only a few out of the many will be willing to endure what is needed to find it.
Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only,
but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;
Philippians 2:12
Instead? They will choose from the "broad and wide way" to happiness.
Some even end up mentally ill.
Many, simply rigid in their thinking, which they assume for strength.
God will provide for all our needs, and He has done so.
