why isn't it done?

Peter Singer in his excellent essay “What Should a Billionaire
Give – and What Should You?” defines very well the moral
state of the world today.
He uses an example of “ walking by a shallow pond and
seeing a small child who has fallen in and appears to be in
danger of drowning. Even though we did nothing to cause the
child to fall into the pond, almost everyone agrees that if we
can save the child at minimal inconvenience or trouble to
ourselves, we ought to do so. Anything else would be callous,
indecent, and, in a word, wrong.”
He continues with the illustration inviting us to picture the
same pond with fifty children in it.
Fifty adults, all able to help, are walking by the pond.
The logical and comparatively easy solution would be for each adult
to help one child out of trouble.
However, the picture gets more complicated with the fact that
some are not willing to help at all, and still others think that they
have done enough by pulling out one of the children.
This is the sin factor, actively ignored and resisted by most of the
movers and shakers of the modern world.
All the tensions, judgments, accusations, hesitations
and arrangements that go on with the fifty describe very well
the moral dilemmas that people face in the world today.
Are we doing enough?
Who is not doing his part?
How can we get everybody involved?
Do we have enough problems for everyone to get a chance to be a hero?
Yes, we don’t only have enough needs and problems, but
we also have all the resources to meet the needs and to solve the
problems.
It’s not happening.
Giving away without expecting anything, I mean anything,
in return is not acceptable in modern man’s moral charts.
The same principle applies in Evangelism.
If Evangelism would only mean the task of passing of a piece of important
information and key codes to others, the job could be done fast.
If every Christian would share the message with one other person
every day, the world could be reached in a couple of days.
It’s not happening.
Evangelism means more. It is strongly connected with waiting,
patience, continuing, persuading, listening, loving…
That what man considers to be slow, the Bible calls patient.
II Pet.3:9
Laying down your life is not a fast solution,
but it’s the only one that can produce new life.