The Man Who Plays Pastor

Christians have long compared prayer to a thermometer that measures spiritual heat. When we grow complacent in our relationship with the Lord, that thermometer almost invariably registers cool, for in such times we pray seldom and we pray without fervor. What is true of us individually is true of us congregationally. We need to be constantly on guard against encroaching apathy, and such spiritual malaise often manifests itself first in prayerlessness. Here’s how Leonard Ravenhill crisply s