I changed the word "preaching" to proclaiming because proclaiming is more general. The word preaching is only one form of evangelism in a verbal form. Isn't "proclaiming" a value-loaded word? It assumes you have something to "proclaim". In a multi-ethnic and multi-religious world, this comes across as condescending. It isn't quite a NPOV (neutral point of view). What you're doing is just preaching IMHO. ---- I think this article could be expanded by referring to some Germans crediting Bach as being the "Fifth Evangelist" due to the power and beauty of his religious music. I don't know where it would fit in, but the fact is stated in the 'Professional Life' section of the article on Bach. --Ninjawailer 03:20, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==Too Protestant== The later versions of this article are too Protestant, and too Evangelical. It wasn't a lot more NPOV before, but it is locked in, now, to Protestant, Evangelical view of what Evangelism is. Mkmcconn (Talk) 03:35, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC) evangelization is the spread of christianity ==needs another point of view== Evangelism is a code word used by Christians to mean the destruction of the ethnicity and traditional cultures of non-christians through religious conversion. Evangelists are the worst example of that most pernicious and destructive form of humanity, the "do-gooder". Rather than tending to the state of their own souls, they express their (completely sincere) desire to improve the world by brainwashing others. Because they are so focused on their mission, and they are so utterly convinced of the moral correctness of their beliefs, they honestly are incapable of understanding the titantic destruction they wreak on our world's philosophical and ethnic diversity. They themselves would much rather be forced to believe in Christ than allowed to live without Christianity, so they "do unto others as they would have done unto them". Damn flatlanders. This article is far too kind, there's not even a semblance of NPOV here.