You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.
John 15:16
I chose you .... so that you might bear fruit.
We are chosen because we will bear fruit, not because we will fail and be
a disaster.
But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
1 Cor 1:27
We are chosen to shame the wise, the weak to shame the strong
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.
Eph 1:4
We are chosen to be holy and blameless.
He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
James 1:18
We are the firstfruits, His success in the world of men.