“We must know and love a people before we can disciple them… At home or abroad every discipler needs to ask: ‘For whom am I responsible?’ If a missionary fails to do this, the geographic and ethnic limits of his ministry remain blurred. He will jump from opportunity to opportunity. 

I asked one of these wandering "gold prospectors" in Central America what his area of responsibility was. ‘Oh,’he said, ‘I am winning the country for Christ.’ He goes from city to city preaching in prisons and army camps; he bombs villages with tracts from his Cessna. It’s fun and folks back home eagerly finance it. But he will never plant a reproductive church until he learns to hold the people of a community in his heart.” George Patterson, “The Spontaneous Multiplication of Churches"