After all, demographics prove that these unreached people are streaming into the big cities. People want to see 'bang for their buck' and don't have a long-term commitment. An early church father said that the work of the kingdom is slow. We've lost that and thus follow the hype. For example, there has been a massive investment of mission resources in the former Soviet Union.
Integrity demands to know what is being said back in the resourcing countries.
It's easy to report back with great results in the hopes of securing more support. Consider Asia, from where we hear great things about mass response. Anyone who understands the shame cultures of Asia knows that these people may choose to 'respond' rather than bring shame on a missionary who would appear to fail at his work. Integrity demands to know if all this is real. It's been humbling for us in Wycliffe to work in areas where 15 years may pass before we see the first convert, simply from the struggle to penetrate a culture so alien to us.