Is Jesus Inclusive or Exclusive?

There are a number of answers to this question, and I challenge us to faithfully search through two of them:

1. Jesus is exclusive: Those who hold this stand argue that Jesus is only for those who are part of our group, who have made the good confession of faith, who live according to our tenets and rules, who are members of our church, etc.
   
1. Ask a follower of this understanding of Christianity and you are likely to hear quotes of John 14:6 ("Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."" ) and Acts 4:11-12 (This Jesus is 'the stone that was rejected by you, the builders; it has become the cornerstone.' There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among mortals by which we must be saved."
2. Exclusivists are likely to form fragmentary, divisive groups of varying sizes, bound by common ideaology of us and them -- those saved and those damned.
2. Jesus is inclusive: Those who hold to this position are likely to claim Jesus as Lord, and the one through whom all are saved, but may not require a personal consent to being saved as a pre-requisite for the efficacy of Jesus' work. If Jesus died for all, then he must have died for those who are outside our group even as he died for those within our group. Likely quotes are Galatians 3:27-28 (As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.) and I TImothy 4:5-6 (For there is one God; there is also one mediator between God and humankind, Christ Jesus, himself human, who gave himself a ransom for all.)
   

The challenge in our pluralistic society is to make sense of our own faith in light of the truth claims of others. When the news challenges those who would hold an exclusive view of God as if exclusivity is definitive of the Christian community, they threaten to make of us a sect and not a faith. "Look at those Christians," they seem to say. "They think they are the only ones with rights on the planet! They think it ok and even holy to declare war on those who are not Christian." (In a sense they are right. We need only look at the numerous times that the divine manifest destiny of the euro/American nations was used in the eighteenth century as a justification for war and the extermination of the native peoples across the world.)

Sadly, the rhetoric of the right tends to affirm exclusivity. Might we find our Jesus to be more inclusive than we care to acknowledge? He was the One who continually found himself in trouble for breaking the strictures of Levitical law, associating with the wrong people in the wrong professions. He was the one who reached outside the boundaries to heal the Syro-phonecian woman's daughter, who spoke and comforted the Samaritan woman, who welcomed the Greeks into his disciples, who died for sinners all.

I'm curious where you all stand on this.