One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit. As workers for God, we must reproduce our own kind spiritually, and those lives will be God's testimony to us as His workers. God brings us up to a standard of life through His grace, and we are responsible for reproducing that same standard in others. Many of us are dictators, dictating our desires to individuals and to groups. But Jesus never dictates to us in that way.
Discipleship carries with it an option.