What the Body Needs

So true so many decades ago when Bounds wrote this; but so desparately true, and so incredibly needed, today:

What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Spirit can use -- men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Spirit does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men -- men of prayer.

Edward McKendree (E. M.) Bounds