Soft Touch Evangelism?

"If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me."  Luke 9:23

I recently saw a set of interesting questions used by Asian Access, a Christian missions agency in South Asia.  The questions are used to determine the readiness of a new convert to follow Christ.  As you will see their evangelism technique is very different than what we use here in the States.....see what you think.

*Are you willing to leave home and lose the blessing of your father?
*Are you willing to lose your job?
*Are you willing to go to the village and those who persecute you, forgive them, and share the     love of Christ with them?
*Are you willing to give an offering to the Lord?
*Are you willing to be beaten rather than deny your faith?
*Are you willing to go to prison?
*Are you willing to die for Jesus?

At first these seemed to be pretty harsh questions to be putting to someone who is near to coming to Christ.  I felt like they were almost making it too difficult to commit to Jesus.  But when you consider the intense persecution that Christians are under in South Asia, you realize it is right that these new converts should be told the truth about the cost of following Jesus.
There are many blessings promised to those who commit to Christ, but an easy life here on earth is not one of them.  Our path in following Jesus is heading in a completely opposite direction than the path of this world, therefore we ought to expect resistance and harassment.
I heard one pastor who felt that because of all of our freedoms here in America, we proclaim what he termed "soft touch" evangelism.  He said this type of evangelism does not speak of the cost of discipleship.  That got me wondering, along with him, if the "soft touch" breeds Christians who are soft in their commitment, and who wither too quickly when trials arise.  Not that we should make it difficult to accept Jesus, but that we should more fully explain what it means to take up the cross daily.
How would you have answered the questions that Asian Access puts to their new converts?  I'm hoping you would answer yes to all of them, I know I would.  And though we may never be confronted with the same persecution facing our brothers and sisters in South Asia, may we have the same resolve to follow our beloved Jesus, no matter the cost.