One of my favorite scholars, Christopher Wright, was interviewed by the koinonia blog recently&mdashan interview consisting of the single question:

“In what way have we as evangelical Christians failed to grasp or live out the fullness of God’s missional intent? How (if at all) has our theology of evangelism been weak?”

Wright has responded by giving 5 false dichotomies where the Church has over-emphasized one aspect instead of realizing both. His insights are spot-on, in my opinion, and I suggest every check out his response in the post “False Dichotomies in Mission” part 1 and part 2.

The false dichotomies his talks about are:
1. Individual and Cosmic/Corporate impacts of the Gospel
2. Believing In and Living Out the Gospel
3. Evangelism and Discipleship
4. Word/Proclamation and Deed/Demonstration
5. Evangelism from Ecclesiology

I highly recommend the read.