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Should We Prioritize Evangelism in Missions?

February 12th, 2026 | 12 min read

By Trevin Wax

For more than fifty years—encapsulated in a famous backroom debate between Billy Graham and John Stott, but in reality stretching back further, to the beginnings of the neo-evangelical movement and Carl F. H. Henry’s The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism—evangelicals have wrestled with the nature and extent of the church’s mission.

 

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Trevin Wax

Trevin Wax is vice president of research and resource development at the North American Mission Board and a visiting professor at Cedarville University. A founding editor of The Gospel Project, he is the author of multiple books, including The Thrill of Orthodoxy. He has taught courses on mission and ministry at Wheaton College and has lectured on Christianity and culture at Oxford University. His podcast is Reconstructing Faith.