The evangelism committee made him stop because he wasn't one of them. Sunday's Gospel is sort of a lesson in pronouns.
Human beings like to divide people into categories.
Almost all of the time, the real division is between us and them. Jesus is Lord of His Church. He will decide who is included in it. In Sunday's Old Testament lesson, it is Joshua who suffers the pronoun problem. The story begins with Moses insisting to the Lord that he needs help.