Rick Warren & earning your salvation

I listened to the old sermon series 40 days of Love by Rick "Scripture-twisting" Warren and something he said both surprised and frustrated me. Rick made the act of loving God into a good work that earns your salvation. He said that Love compensates for my sins. Now in context, he wasn't talking about Christ's love for us which led Him to come down and die for our sins and live a righteous life for us. Instead Rick was saying that God will look down on you and see you're a sinner but He'll also look to see if you "love Him" and if you do love Him enough and love you're neighbors enough He will overlook your sins because hey, no one's perfect, and God doesn't really expect you to be perfect.

Don't confuse these passages as Gospel, they are not, they are the culmination of the Law
God the Son, Jesus said in Matthew 5:48  
You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

And again in Matt 22: 34-40
But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question to test Him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And He said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”


So what's the difference between Law passages and Gospel passages? The Law passages Condemn you before God - as in Oh, you're not perfect or you mean you didn't love God with you're whole heart/soul/mind every second of every day or love all 7 billion neighbors on the planet as much as you love yourself, well then enjoy an all expenses paid trip to the Eternal Lake of Fire.

Its the Gospel passages that speak of the work already being done by Christ for you not in your work you need to do for Him.