"The here determines the hereafter"

No. it. doesn't. What happened 2000 some-odd years ago determines the hereafter.

(rant warning....)

This is one of dozens and dozens of church signs I have seen or that have been submitted to me that warn the passers-by: Watch out for what you do, because it determines your destination in the afterlife.
Please, please, please realize that this is completely wrong. Your destination is already determined: You are going to hell. No matter what you do or don't do, because of your sinful nature, you are one hell-bound son of a gun. There is a way OUT of that, however: receive salvation as a free gift of God. He has offered it, by grace, through his Son. He paid the price for that sinful nature.

This church sign, and ones like it, imply one of two things:
a) You begin with a ticket to heaven, but somehow lose it by doing bad things and end up going to hell.
or
b) You begin in a sort of neutral state, and your actions tip the scales one way or another, towards heaven or hell.

If you are a non-believer and have been informed that Christianity involves one of those two above scenarios, I apologize, but it's really a lot simpler than that. You don't have to do anything. Christ has done it. I am so thankful that I don't have to rely on myself to determine my final outcome! It has been taken care of for me. How many unbelievers might have been turned off of Christianity because they have received the message (either from a church sign or elsewhere) that THEY are responsible for doing enough good works (or avoiding enough bad ones) to reach heaven? God forgive us.

Sorry for the soapbox, but this sign really ticks me off. A seemingly "fluff" sign that contains, quite simply, a damaging lie about the religion it claims to represent.

(...end of rant)