 We're to be a praying church, not just praying individuals, but a praying church. The church of Jesus Christ is to be a house of prayer, just like the Old Testament temple was called that. Now the church, which is the temple of God today, as Paul says in 1 Corinthians 3.16, the place in which the Holy Spirit dwells, that ought all the more to be called by that name, a house of prayer.