When Jesus Christ sought to win the world to himself, he said to his chosen disciples, who had themselves been enlisted one at a time, Go ye therefore, and make disciples [or pupils] of all the nations. Making disciples of all the nations involved winning to the teacher the individuals in those nations. So, the seeking of a single individual by a single individual has been God's chosen way of evangelizing, or of doing missionary work, from the begin ning of the Christian ages even to the present day.