In that sense, I say Christianity was intended by Jesus to be a minority position and always will be. He wasn’t dividing the world into those God loved and those God didn’t love. Jesus was creating a remnant who were useable by God— to keep the whole world from its violent path toward self-destruction. Jesus was loving and drawing all of us into God, or, as John put it, “to gather together into one the scattered children of God” (John 11:52). That is very different than forming a new tribe of saved and superior people.
