I gotta do what?

I got this idea for a post from my friend Chris' blog. Kind of a spinoff of my response to one of his posts. So props to Chris.
It's not like there are any secrets to Christianity. It may take a little effort to find out what you need to know, but it's all there for us to learn for ourselves. Kind of like algebra. Man, it takes forever to learn it but there are no tricks or secrets to it. You just pick up a textbook and read and learn.
If you wanted to pick at nits and argue a point, you could ask,"What about the people who have never seen a bible or died before they got the chance?"
Consider this, would you hold it against a first grader if you asked him to solve a simple algebraic equation and he couldn't? Would you call him stupid or tell him it was his own fault that he didn't know? Of course not. At least I hope not.
So my short answer (and that's all you get today) is that I believe that there is Grace in this situation.
Sorry about the digression but there are a couple in every crowd.
Sure it takes Gods timing, alot of outside help from others and surrounding ourselves with strong faithful followers of Christ, but come on, in the end we are responsible for our own decisions.
That thought alone is enough to scare me straight. Because you know and I know there are going to be a buttload of people at judgement saying stuff like,"Yeah, my mother told me about God and the Bible but when I left home she never came and picked me up for church." Or,"I went to church once and the preacher never came up and talked to me or told me how to be a christian." Or,"I thought all I had to do was show up."
It's our lives, our salvation and our eternity. Not moms, not the preachers. Our very own. No one will do it for us.
The good news is that all we are fortunate enough to live in a country where all we need to know is available to us at any time. God has provided us with information, resources, and the freedom to be able to use them.
I pray we use the brains God gave us to take advantage of that provision.