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Prudentias wrote:

There is some seeds that will be thrown into bad land, like bricks, we must try people that are at least open to Christianity, and this means that if we got 1 person over 100 people, it's a victory considering the scenario.

Most people that were atheist, including me, became Christians not because of people proselyting. Most people find preaching really boring and pushing. I begun to study and converted, some of my ex-pagans (Wicca, pagan and atheist) friend I have converted studying calmly or studying on a despair, most people in fact get even far from Christianity when a person talks about accepting Jesus on a IRL talking, Snapchat or Whats App. Generally everybody thinks that this person is boring, we must help giving a suggestion and letting God and the person doing the conversion to Christ.

Evangelization is not just people preaching in the streets. It's explaining our faith and proclaiming the good news. I once lived like an atheist (I still considered myself a Catholic but far from religious or Holy). As I studied the faith I became more interested once again.

That being said listening to, "Well if you don't go to Church and believe in God you'll burn in hell!" didn't do much for me. For a man that lives as if hell doesn't exist the threats of hell mean nothing. The only way Hell means anything is if your eyes are opened to the Glory of God and the Joy of Heaven.

That being said being taught of how bad hell is, is a good thing. For me it didn't start with learning about God, it was learning about how the world works. Slowly the layers were peeled back like an onion. The center of it all? God.

I'd consider teaching people about the faith to be Evangelization of a kind. Even just talking about different topics and showing how God works through different means is evangelization.

This being said the whole, "You need Jesus in your life young man!" doesn't cut it because a man who isn't sure if God exists and wants a rational conversation is going to laugh and walk away.