I don't think any of us will ever forget the images of the day that the Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City was destroyed by a terrorist bomb. They are images of that devastated building, the frantic rescue efforts there, and of a baby in a fireman's arms. It was a day of heart-wrenching tragedy and it was a day of incredible heroism, too. Literally, an entire city dropped everything to respond in whatever way they could to this life-or-death situation. The job was clear that day: rescue the dying whatever it takes.
When Jesus came, the job was clear: rescue the dying whatever it takes. In Luke 19:10, He said, "The Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost." God's Son came here to aggressively pursue and rescue lost people like those rescuers going into the wreckage of that building. The "save" word here isn't just a theological concept - it's a rescue word as in what those rescuers did in Oklahoma City. If they didn't get to the people trapped in that building and save them, they would die.
Then Jesus says to us in John 20:21, "As the Father has sent Me, I am sending you." Our job is clear - to rescue the dying people around us whatever it takes. Paul makes our responsibility very clear when he says in 2 Corinthians 5:20, "We are Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you..." Now notice the passion and the urgency "...on Christ's behalf. Be reconciled to God."
See, that's why you are where you are - in that school, that neighborhood, that organization, your workplace. Jesus put you there to be His personal representative to that group of people. It's a divine assignment. How are you doing? He's put you there to, as they say in kindergarten, "show and tell" them about Jesus. You need to show them what Jesus is like by your attitude and your actions and your treatment of them. But you can't just show - you have to tell. They'll never guess that Jesus died on the cross to pay for their sins just because you're a nice person. You have to tell them.
All of us rescuers tend to forget it and we do what's easy - just talk to the people who are already safe. But when you realize that people's lives, people's eternities are in the balance, you put everything else on hold to save them. The job is clear - rescue the dying whatever it takes.