called, chosen, taken as in communion bread

Me

Story of getting elected to the class presidency in College

I was chosen to represent my class

Celebrating and feeling guilty

Interactive Element: What is a time that you were chosen and you knew that meant someone else wouldn’t be?

We

We’ve all had some experience deep down of not being chosen

for the job

to play on varsity

To get the scholarship

To love someone dearly and yet not feel chosen by them

It feel special to be chosen

being seen as the one that

Out of all of the people to be selected for something and to be chosen

Being chosen feels good

Beaming with happiness waiting to tell people

Everyone feels good about being chosen

Whatever it is

To be chosen to teach others

We choose selectively

Car based off of their gas mileage - or maybe because it looks cool

Colleges - based off of the programs and professors, and tuition that they have

Friends - based off of

God Operates Differently than that

We make choices selectively but God makes choices unconditionally.

God chooses you

Ephesians 1:4 NRSV

4 just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love.

The passage takes us to the beginning of time at creation

Where from the begining God loves you and God chooses you

God chooses the people who you don’t choose

We need to understand that we are God’s chosen one’s even when the world does not choose us

We are not only called but we are, the scripture says destined for adoption

What a sacred thing

Not just a good friend of God

But Chosen and brought fully into the family of God

It is in our nature to see differences among ourselves to

Just because you are included does not mean that others are excluded

Our hero’s or the people that are “Chosen” often it to the exclusion of others

The table is big enough

Lyrics of the song a place at the table.

Embrace and Share God's Inclusive Choice

Embrace that you are God’s own choice

embrace that you are beautifully and wonderfully made

God knit you together in your mother womb and knows the exact amount of hairs that are on your head

Chosenness on a communal level is sacredness