Michael Green narrated:
If we prayed in support of evangelism and missionary work instead of giving lip-service to it - we should see great advance. I shall never forget learning this lesson afresh. The occasion was a mission in the University of Cambridge, and I was leading it. Large numbers were packing the Guildhall every night, but few were professing conversion. Many Christians in Cambridge mentioned that they found it very hard to pray. So did I. On the penultimate night of the mission I did not sleep very much, and I think that was fairly general among the Christian community. We had finally begun to give prayer its place. Back in Nottingham at St John's, where I was on the staff, somebody had a vision that night., it was of me standing between the trenches in No Man's Land during the first world war. There were soldiers in our trenches who were supposed to be supplying covering fire. Instead, they were playing cards. That vision drove people in St John's to prayer, and a prayer vigil was kept in a room apart all that day. In the evening in Cambridge, some 800 students stayed to an explanation of the way to Christ after the final talk, and scores of them committed themselves to our Lord. It certainly taught me a lesson about the link between prayer and evangelism.
Culled from "Evangelism - Now and Then" by Michael Green
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