Emphasis on evangelism is essential to vital Christianity. The evangelization of the world is its main business. But this means vastly more than a matter of additional church members. It is, above all else, a matter of transformed, empowered personalities. Evangelism means preaching the gospel to secure conversions. The essence of the gospel that the Christian Church is supposed to proclaim is simply this: "If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; they are become new" (2 Corinthians 5:17). That is, a person may surrender himself so completely to the personal influence of Jesus Christ that his life will be both revolutionized and empowered. Delivered from self-centeredness and inner conflict, he is given a new sense of adequacy. Enmity, suspicion, and f…