Everyone pictures the rescuer as the one who has it all together, but the truth is harder and better than that. This message draws on years spent on a backcountry search and rescue team to reframe what Jesus meant when he said he came to seek and save the lost. It follows a real midnight search for a four-year-old boy who wandered off at a lake, then turns that night into a plain question about how people actually get lost. Not all at once, but one small decision at a time, usually without ever realizing it. From there, it looks at the church as a rescue team with two jobs: going out to find the missing, and staying to carry the ones already hurting quietly in the same room. Then comes the turn that changes everything. Before you can carry anyone, you have to admit you were carried first.