Serving? - not

Today I looked up the verse about becoming a new creation in Christ (2 Cor. 5:17). The next verse or two, now that's the clincher.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation. (2 Cor. 5:17-19)
I like being reconciled to God, a "friend of God," but I'm not sure I'm ready to get in the sticky business of other people's messy lives to have a ministry of reconciliation. Fortunately, God asks us to take small steps at a time...