It's a constant process, a constant balancing act. To succeed as missionaries in the next century, we have to integrate mission into evangelism. I'm against evangelism that doesn't have a mission heart. No, I'm against the type of evangelism that doesn't include compassion. People in our culture think everybody is selling something.
Evangelism can come across as selling.
We don't share the same faith, but I'm so sorry your little daughter died. When you think of it, Jesus' spirit was more a spirit of mission than it was of evangelism. He didn't rattle off numbers like we do today. Evangelism often focuses on numbers like business focuses on sales. I think we have to abandon that type of evangelism and let mission take its place.