What is evangelism? How could a term so basic to the Christian faith be the subject of such divergent opinions? Opinions range between two extremes: those who think that evangelism is any church activity and those who consider someone evangelized only when he or she becomes a disciple of Jesus Christ and a responsible member of a local church.1 Rather than defining evangelism, the Bible describes it. Our English word is a transliteration of the Greek word euangelizo,