Election or selection?

Klyne Snodgrass commenting on the Parables of the Wedding Banquet (Mt.22v1-14) and the Feast (Lk.14v15-24) says:

"The kingdom is still like a banquet. The invitation can still go out because all is ready and people may come and enjoy the feast now. ... The kingdom is still - and will be - like a banquet at which those who are supposed to attend were too preoccupied to come and others not expected to attend come and enjoy the feast. The expected are absent and the unexpected are present. Repeatedly this theme sounds forth in Jesus' teaching in a discomforting way ... No one should take attendance at the messianic banquet for granted. Unfortunately, many people do so: they have made a decision, they belong to the right group, they have the right schooling, and they have participated in numerous services and charitable efforts, so they can now get on with their lives. Proclamation of the kingdom is not about reassuring people, nor is the kingdom in keeping with the busyness and many of the values we presuppose. Proclamation of the kingdom is a challenge to respond to the invitation of God. ... Both parables teach that we cannot have the kingdom on our own terms. The invitation of grace brings with it demand. At stake is the issue of a person's identity. It is not enough to wear the right label ("the invited one"); rather, the kingdom must shape identity so that one has a whole different set of concerns. The warning of Luke must be heard: the biggest obstacle to discipleship are our possessions and family, but they are also the biggest opportunities for discipleship."

(Snodgrass, KR, 2018, Stories with intent, p.322, 2nd edition.)