I keep trying to explain the difference between relational disciple-making and the way church is usually done. Maybe it’s this:

Churches usually want to do it bigger and faster instead of smaller and slower.

You can’t mass-produce disciples any more than you can make pianists by taking people to concerts.

And he went up on the mountain and called to him those whom he desired, and they came to him. And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach and have authority to cast out demons. He appointed the twelve… (Mark 3.13 – 16, ESV)

After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. (John 6.66, ESV)