One of the pastors at our church mentions often that WE are the ones to do God’s work on Earth, and to bring people to Christ. Often it is by our words, and more often by our actions. But it is up to US.
“That is Plan A people. And there is no ‘Plan B’. If I was God - I wouldn’t have set it up like that - to depend on me to spread the Gospel. But that’s the way it is - it is up to us to lead people to Christ, with Jesus working through us to do it.”
Also in our church (Protestant), is the idea that we are so sinful that we can’t even imagine choosing Christ. So that means that He chose us, and reached out to us (through people). And we can either accept that or not.
It is funny/interesting that there are rules of such things. And most of those rules seem not to have been very well figured out or defined by men (even men of God). At least, I don't recall them having been clearly laid out in Church.
I wonder if their (said rules) not having been laid out clearly" is part of the rules of engagement between God and the forces of evil such that it is incumbent on us mortals to figure this stuff out for ourselves.