Nobody left behind

What if the goal was to leave nobody behind?

What if instead of having lost causes we saw everyone as deserving Jesus and the chance to see him face to face?

We, or at least I'm guilty of, seeing some people as just too far gone sometimes. They deny Christ. They trash him. They mark their religion as none on Facebook or something really mean. They are rude to you. They trash you. They trash your beliefs. They trash your God. But the thing is. He is not just your God. He is a God who reigns over everyone. He is a God who loves everyone. He is a God who sent his son to die for everyone. Before you were born he was saving people and loving people and he will after you are gone.

Our goal is not to get saved and arrive safely at death with no one else in tow.

That is not being a good and faithful servant. That is being selfish and poor.

This is a ticking time bomb that we need to be aware of. All we have is our life and we need to use it to help others, show Jesus, and rescue and save people for him.

John 6:35–40 (NIV)

Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day

He wants to lose none of these that are given to him.

That shows he doesn't want to lose the mean atheist down the street who was made in God's image.

He doesn't want the orphan down the road to be lonely without Jesus because they're too low on the food chain to be dealt with.

Your addicted cousin or aunt or old friend, they aren't too far God for the hand of God to touch them. Rescue them. Heal them. Give them life.

Everyone has two things in common, saved or not saved:  they are made in the image of God and loved by him,  and they have potential to do something great for God's kingdom.

So don't plan to leave some people behind and think some will just be left behind, but plan to take as many people with you to heaven someday.

It's the great commission.