Some of them have absolutely fawned on the pronouncements of psychology. Pastors have searched for excellence, and have mastered management by objectives. But increasingly they have discovered that their work is too big to be run like a business, and far too important to model after show business. Pastors are challenged regularly to address deeper needs, and offer greater healing than psychology can be expected to understand. They deal daily with eternal issues having values far above that which financial wizards can compute.
Secular paradigms are inadequate.
And so pastors are turning to prayer. And they are re- discovering the very heart of the life of the church. They are finding that in prayer itself are revealed the models and programs and successes that they have been so eagerly looking for elsewhere. Prayer is not new to the church. Pastors have always believed sincerely in prayer.