I've tried it and it doesn't work. It's only those fanatic-types that keep on with that 'Prayer changes things' business. This reasoning reminds me of a very good analogy where a person unsatisfied with the Christian life is compared to the fellow who was told that a feather bed was a grand thing. So he found one feather and didn't think it felt good at all, and he promptly came to the decision that feather beds were just for the birds. The Christian life is like that.
Prayer is like that.
There are two of what I will call extremes in this matter of public prayer, which is what we want to focus on in contrast to private prayer although they are almost the same thing. Probably most of us have heard one of these extremes to the almost total exclusion of the other. I'll try to define these two extremes, as I have labeled them. First of all, I want to say that whether or not I like his approach, I am wrong if I take it upon myself to decide upon his sincerity of heart. It is, thank the Lord, not my decision to make, and I may have even gone too far toward this in my example.