We often think of ourselves - the Church - as God's "gift" to the world. We read the scriptures as if they support our unending lust for power, authority, and control over all non-Christians, as if somehow we're "better." And yet, the scriptures state often, it is the Church (aka, those who call themselves believers) that God wishes to destroy. It is the Church that makes up the wild grapes that God gives to be trampled and devoured.