The people who are responsive today may not be responsive tomorrow. ECI is making an all out effort to disciple the most responsive people groups in India. The Bible shows a steady preference to the oppressed. Even our Lord commanded us to go to the poor. The oppressed and the poor have always been receptive to the Gospel down the centuries in India and else where.
Power lies with the poor.
That is why all the politicians and so-called social reformers go to them. The poor have a natural capacity to put their trust on almost anything. They are not dogmatic. Other non-Christian religions like Buddhism and Islam have won a considerable number of converts to their religions from these sections of the society. The tragedy is that Christian missions which had initiated the movement in relieving the sufferings of the oppressed, the out-castes and the poor have now conveniently settled down in setting up bureaucratic structures serving the elite, affluent strata of the society through their schools and hospitals.