So true!
Remember when pioneering was 120 hours per month? Then 90? Now 70. Now the infirm can even count 15 mins!!! All so that they can feel they've 'accomplished something' in the org's eyes. It's crazy!
It's God's eyes we need to concern ourselves with. Only He knows whether we've done it out of a genuine heart. How many go out in Service, have a wonderful 'report', but it's just going through the motions or their personal life is far from Christian?
I haven't counted hours for months. It's pointless. Sure I've been out in the formal 'ministry' and informal, but I make a reasonable estimate and put it on the slip (only for the sake of convention). Hours are irrelevant.
It would be fascinating to see, if reporting was ever dispensed with, how many would carry on going door-to-door and how many new converts there would be in years to come.