I am the screw-up but the Lord loves me and He wants me and He lets me be on His team anyway so I am His screw-up. He didn't screw up. I am just one of His motley crew. That is one thing that a lot of people don't get about the Church whether they are inside or outside of it.
The Lord generally chooses those who the world would consider the least likely to succeed. That is why the powers of this world whether religious or not didn't get why Jesus ate with tax collectors and sinners and why He picked a bunch of hicks from Galilee, fishermen, a tax collector, a Zealot and so on to be His apostles.
The Apostle Paul says in 1st Corinthians 1:
26Consider your own calling, brothers. Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27Rather, God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wise, and God chose the weak of the world to shame the strong, 28and God chose the lowly and despised of the world, those who count for nothing, to reduce to nothing those who are something, 29so that no human being might boast before God. 30It is due to him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, as well as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, 31so that, as it is written, “Whoever boasts, should boast in the Lord.” NABRE
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