Orthodoxy vs. Orthopraxy

I am finding that the older I get, the less I am worried about orthodoxy and the more I am concerned with orthopraxy. When I was younger, the major things I was taught to fight for involved the mechanics of Jesus being both God and human, maintaining the vague lines of the Holy Trinity, and other similar things which, quite frankly, no human being can actually discern with any accuracy. But the older I get, the more I see that all of this is really just distraction. Jesus might have alluded to some of these things, assumed some of these things, but it's not what He harped on or taught most of the time, and according to Him, orthodoxy isn't even how we are judged. 

     No, the major things which He harped on were loving one another, literally the last command to His disciples before the cross, treating others as we want to be treated, mercy, compassion, forgiveness is a big one, and just being kind to one another. Jesus cared so much less about what anyone thought about His nature and so much more about whether or not they loved and forgave their enemies. 

     What difference does it really make if you are Trinitarian, Unitarian, or Monist if you're not being kind to one another? Forgiving one another, and loving one another as He loved us? What difference does it make if you're orthodox or Nestorian if you don't live as He taught? Can you really call yourself a Christian, can you really call yourself a disciple if you strictly adhere to the Nicene Creed and yet ignore or contradict Jesus' very teachings? Is it really necessary to tithe down to the penny, and yet ignore the most important things of the Gospel like mercy, love, compassion, forgiveness, and non-judgment? 

     God's not going to give you a theology test in the afterlife, but He is going to replay your life from everyone else's point of view, and it will hit hard when you experience how you treated others from their viewpoint. "As much as you have done these things to the least of these my brothers, you have done it also to Me." Simply being kind to one another, even something as simple as giving a cup of cold water to a child, is so much more profoundly important than what you believe about God's existence and relationship to His creation that Jesus was explicit about it.

      "What did Jesus teach?" is the first question which should be on a Christian's lips, not "What do I think Jesus is?"