Evangelism is a take and give, give and take relationship.

In Evangelism today we do not seek to bring God to the other,but to find God in the other. Put in other words evangelism is really a two way street. We enter the other's world because we really believe that we are enriched by the interactions between their story and our story. Thus we celebrate and acknowledge the existence of good and beauty where ever we find it.Jesus often found faith outside his own religious tribe and praised it(Matt 8: 10; 15:28).The gospel is the story of Jesus being saddened by the lack of faith among his own people.
It is important that in Evangelism we get to know people, their stories of what God has been doing before we got there and learn alongside. Evangelism is a take and give, give and take love relationship in which no story, culture or mythology is better than the other. We initiate a relationship because we believe that there is a treasure in the other that we can not miss.We should be prepared to trade stories.
This treasure is stored in the people's individual and communal stories and is expressed through their myths and metaphors. They have pictures of God as well as images and metaphors from their daily lives which express this understanding of God. Evangelism should tape these as a starting point to establish a relationship and a common language.The people's stories and images have the most powerful hold over their imaginations.Without tapping into the stories, pictures and metaphors of any people christian words and syntax would be indistinguishable from gibberish.