Our message is proclaimed with a desire that the hearer will respond for faith. The Christian life is a converting process. Evangelism happens as God continues to work in the lives of disciples, reaching out through them to make new disciples, and making their own discipleship ever more full and true. Doctors are not allowed to deliver babies and leave them lying on the street. They would have their licenses rejected and be prosecuted for malpractice.
Someone has to feed the baby, change the baby and care for all the baby's needs.
People who decide for faith are reborn as babies. We must nurture and care for them until they become mature enough to become reproducing disciples. This is a structure of accountability. The congregation is designed and gifted to assume the nurturing, discipline process. This means that the church has a great responsibility for each person, and each person has an ever-increasing responsibility to become involved in the whole process of making disciples.