The question of character formation before heaven

"Character - the transforming, shaping, and marking of a life and its habits - will generate the sort of behavior that rules might have pointed toward but which a "rule-keeping" mentality can never achieve. And it will produce the sort of life which will in fact be true to itself - though the "self" to which it will at last be true is the redeemed self, the transformed self, not the merely "discovered" self of popular thought...In the last analysis, what matters after you believe is neither rules nor spontaneous self-discovery, but character." - N.T. Wright, After You Believe