Why would someone lay down their life for mean people?  Sinners?  Rebels?  God haters?  The Self-centered?  The arrogant?  Evil persons?  The unkind, unthankful and the unruly?  Just outright bad folks?  One Man did it!  Jesus!  He did not rant about how bad the world was, nor how bad its people were. He just got busy giving up His life for them.  It was the greatest action of love in human history!  These are steps we follow!

“For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die.  But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:7-8 (NASB)