God as well as many churches. Robert and Julia Banks, a leading Australian couple involved in the home church movement, write: “The cult of busyness and activism that infects Christians so much today is one of the greatest barriers to the church becoming what it should be.”3 So church shepherds must radically insist on a schedule that affirms the spiritual priorities of prayer and the ministry of God’s Word. The deacons of the church, also, need to fix these priorities firmly in their minds. This