The success of the method could be said to have been breathtakingly immediate. Look at Levi's banquet which he promptly put on. These men evidently immediately perceived in Christ a genuine love for others. They learned in a day that He was a friend of sinners and welcomed their company. Passages out of the Gospel's Exhibiting the Twelve Disciples of Jesus Under Discipline for Apostleship.
Evangelical activity is of the essence of Christian discipleship.
A follower of Jesus does not strain to be a fisher of men. He becomes one by virtue of association with the chief fisher. Consequently a church need not labour at challenging people to seek the lost. A Christian disciple will be what Jesus is. There is a corollary to this point.