Amos

The short answer is yes. The Matthew evangelists
are religious believers who don't know what they are doing because they are believers themselves who lack the knowledge and understanding for their own belief. None of them have ever reached the end of all their searching and so cannot have a sense of direction towards a desired end because they are lost themselves.

Because of their lack of understanding they would "part the waters" and lead their flock into the desert where they will spend the rest of their days wandering while constantly glaring at heaven and earth as saved sinner in the faith/doubt paradox. For them the sola scriptura message must be replenished each day because the angel of light that on 'one fine day' did part the waters cannot sustain light beyond that day. None of them will ever emerge from this paradox and will constantly be on the look-out for the second coming of Christ. Such error will lead to all sorts of suffering and is the actual cause of conflict on earth that leads to war in the end -- but will never end because they ignore the fact that the reign of God is already in our midst.

That the reign of God is aleady in our midst is very obvious from he Gospels wherein Jesus always asked "why" when they asked what they asked for. In return Jesus gave them what they asked because of "their" faith and he never even once told them that they must do this or that first and then he would think about granting their request. No, it was always "your faith" that was needed.

So the great commision is an ill-perceived protestant ideology. For Catholics the evangelization was different in that they added Catholicism to existing believes and they did this with the zeal of Matthew and used the wisdom of Luke to direct existing local faith under the umbrella of Rome. They may have been baptized but none were ever proclaimed as Christians. Catholic yes, but Christian no. We have a Mother Church to do the rest.