It does not matter how small the group is to start with so long as they reproduce and teach their disciples to reproduce. This is the way the church is to win. God has no other plan. It is seen that the words go, baptize, and teach are all participles which derive their force from the one controlling verb make disciples . We are commanded to build people like ourselves who are constrained by the commission of Christ.
Leadership is the emphasis.
There is no use to pray for the world. The only hope for the world is for laborers to go to them with the gospel of salvation. What really counts in the ultimate perpetuation of our work is the faithfulness with which our converts go out and make leaders out of their converts, not simply more followers. Our work is never finished until it has assured its continuation in the lives of others. The test of our work of evangelism is not what is seen at the moment, or in the conference report, but in the effectiveness with which the work continues in the next generation.