What is the most important pastoral act for maintaining your identity? GK Chesterton said that tradition is the only true democracy because it means giving a vote to your ancestors. If we count only the votes of those who happen to be on their feet at the moment, we are letting a small minority make the decision, and a not very distinguished minority at that. Chesterton argued for extending the franchise to the cemeteries. When we do that, the ballots naming "prayer" come in with an overwhelming majority. For the majority of Christian centuries most pastors have been convinced that prayer is the central and essential act for maintaining the essential shape of the ministry in which they were ordained.
Eugene Peterson, Working the Angles, p26
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