1) God’s purpose is clear: to call us an others into God’s story
2) God sees worth in everyone
3) God is not calling us to a new career; God is calling us to a new identity.
"The claim of a God bigger than those who worship him, more gracious, more generous, more hospitable than they are, is at the core of what Jesus calls the good news, or the gospel, and it ought to be good news that God is bigger than we are." Reverend Peter Gomes