God does not choose a person, but a people. He works with the individuals within that people. But Scripture confirms that God does not choose individuals, rather, He chooses a people to be His own. Certainly, God does chose specific individuals in history as representatives for His redeemed peoples: Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Jesus. But God chooses people not persons.
This is to say that election and predestination is not a personal ordeal, it is a community one. It is a covenant matter. God chooses to initiate a covenant relationship with a certain people. This is the very essence of how God relates to man.
It's like a giant box of crayons owned by God. Each crayon has a unique color and hue but apart from the rest of the colors it is useless, only capable of coloring monochromatically. Understanding that we are a 'people' not autonomous individuals of faith will go a far way to reconciling this broken world and repairing broken churches.
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