place, the priest’s role reaching its most important focus in that celebration. But here Paul stresses the importance of prayer and the role of the pastoral leader as leading God’s people into God’s presence in prayer. Perhaps this emphasis on prayer, and its centrality, suggests a corrective for worship today that is often too little about prayer and too much about sermon, sacrament, and other priorities that may be entirely misplaced—for example, entertainment. Prayer necessarily puts God at the