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I agree Rev 22 applies to all; it seems to focus intently on behavior both good and bad for example, Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Compare Peter with Paul; our faith is on trial and our works (of faith) are tested to prove our faith. That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
Assume his faith was as genuine as yours; he had fruit but after many years he and his wife became obese, And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. He lost weight, divorced and remarried, and is still proclaiming the gospel of salvation by "Grace Alone" to this day with his second slimmer spouse.

It does not appear our faith is on trial in the conditional sense, but in the proof sense. the gold will survive any fire. Why do you suppose Peter used such analogy? To conjure up the image of a wooden faith that would combust at the first sign of heat? Or gold, which endures the fires of life. He was preaching to encourage though who were heavy in spirit, that their faith would survive, not that they had yet another possible failure to hang over their head. The faith that is the gift of God, like gold, is not capable of destruction by lesser things. Though we go through much sorrow and challenge in this life, if we are among those listed here, the end is as secure as the beginning:

Rom 8:28-31 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. (29) For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. (30) Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. (31) What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

As for your preacher, it is to me a temptation to sin to ask me to judge his eternal state. I don’t know, and I would be presuming the role of God to make such a judgment. I urge you to withdraw that portion of your test. No good can come of it.