If you read the Bible closely, you will find many hundreds of people whose names get lost in the credits, who appear to be no more than props in the story, and yet there would ne no story without them. That is almost all of us.

Most people think Christianity is a set of rules that hold a community together, a program for self-help, or a strategy for achieving a political agenda. It can be all those things, but none of them are the objective of the life in God.