It is a continuing process so that the whole life of a Christian should be a passage from death to life, from error to truth, from sin to grace. Our life in Christ demands continual growth in God's grace. Conversion is personal but not private. As all persons or religious organizations have the right to evangelize, it may happen that a person is persuaded to leave his or her previous affiliation in order to join another religious group. Those Christian churches who readily voice the charge of proselytism in these cases should realize that there are different ways of authentic Christian discipleship or living a Christian life.
Christian life is a life of Christian witness in word and deed.
It must be done in a spirit of humbleness and service rather than triumphalism and domination. Evangelism as a special form of Christian witness to the unchurched can follow no other pattern. If Baptist evangelists try to proselytize among active members of other Christian churches for the purpose of increasing the numbers of the Baptist denomination, they fail to fulfill their calling.