CLEVELAND -- Ask a Muslim or a Jew how you get to heaven and their likely reply is: be patient, everyone gets there. But that is not how most Christians see the question.

NewsChannel5's Ted Henry talked to a Catholic priest and a protestant pastor to get their views on the afterlife.

"I believe that Jesus Christ is the only savior because Jesus is the only one qualified to save," said the Rev. Alistair Begg.

Begg is a popular Christian minister who regularly draws 5,000 people to Sunday services at greater Cleveland's Parkside Church.

Henry: "Alistair, a lot of people want to know. How do you get to heaven?"

Begg: "Ah, the way we get to heaven is being done on the strength of the doorway that is being opened wide for all who will believe in and through the person and worth of Jesus."

Henry: "Do you just pass through that doorway or are there requirements you have to live up to?"

Begg: "Yes, there are requirements, and the requirements follow up on our discovery of who Jesus is and what he has done."

Begg teaches his people to be kind and loving toward those who don't follow Christ, but he said that if you want to enter the gates of heaven, believing in Jesus is imperative.

Begg: "I am left with only one conclusion, that for Jesus to say that, 'I am the way, the truth and the life and no one comes to the father but through me,' he meant exactly what he said."

The Scottish-born minister who has recently built Cleveland's largest church said the Bible is the blueprint for reaching heaven and that Jesus is the only way.

Begg: "Well, I think the gates of heaven are open to all who recognize their need of a savior. If you want to go to hell, you have to step over Jesus."

Henry: "What's heaven look like in your estimation?"

Begg: (laughing) "Scotland. No -- sorry, that's terrible."

And what do Catholics think about how you get to heaven?

The Rev. Joe Hilinski: "For the Catholic Church, heaven is not some kind of exclusive building or room that you have to sort of weasel your way in to."

Henry asked Hilinski of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland if Catholics still think theirs is the only true faith.

Hilinski: "Certainly not. I think the Catholic Church looks at itself as a steward of a very precious truth, and many precious truths."

One of those truths concerns the nature of heaven and hell. Unlike Jews and Muslims, Catholics say hell is permanent but that getting into the other place is not so easy.

Henry: "Father, it's time for the $64 question. How do you get to heaven?"

Hilinski: "Well, I'd say first of all, don't worry about getting there. I'd say first of all, worry about your relationship to God right now."

Hilinski also said you should focus less on the destination of heaven and more on the qualities of a just and loving life, this one and the next one.

Hilinski: "It's interesting that the basic description of heaven in our creeds is not heaven. We say we believe in life everlasting in the Apostles' Creed and we say we believe in the life of the world to come, both stressing life."