Why do so many British churches not pray and pray and pray? Is it because we think that programmes are more effective? Why do so many individual Christians (me included) not pray and pray? Is it because we don't really believe in God's power being at work? Is it because our educational culture has taught us that knowledge and competence are more likely to produce results than prayer to a God who is unseen? If this last one is true then we are evangelical rationalists who don't even know that we are substituting the power of God for the competence of Man.