I think you're conflating monk with perpetual hermit.
And somehow seeing monastics as not proclaiming the Gospel. You might be able to understand that to me this is an extremely absurd position.
You're further measuring him by the number of converts or the length and loudness of his preaching and a count of seats in the pew. I don't think you mean to do this, but are merely ignorant of the lives and history and great effect and value of monastics.
You're also discounting completely the value of prayer.
Do you believe at all in intercessory prayer?
I specifically spoke of PERPETUAL HERMITS as being unbiblical. You are conflating what I am saying with what you would have liked me to have said.
The objection to monasticism earlier wasn't based so much on the hermit aspect as it was in Kolo's monastic quote being unscriptural.
The conversation you joined was midstream. It needs to be seen in its full context. If monks are spreading the true gospel I have no problem with it. If monks are living perpetual lives of seclusion, I believe it is unscriptural.