The first is what I meant; I imagine you must not attend gatherings of evangelists, then. Because there's definitely strong encouragement to evangelize and criticism of those that don't (but how well the criticism is hid is just a manner of politeness).

And, actually, the criticism might be hiding in plain sight. The difference between "evangelize" and "persuade" is just whether or not you make a value judgment once you've strip out the implication that you're persuading someone of the Christian gospel. Have you really never heard anyone criticize someone else for not trying to persuade a third party?