Prayer remains an indispensable means to walking with God. The main business of the House of God - the church - is prayer. A local church that fails to be a House of Prayer will end up being a den of thieves. There is no in-between. You just have to be one.
One of the ways by which Satan is killing local churches today is through prayerlessness. This church, (our local church- IBC) by all means and by the grace of God must be a House of Prayer. Anything short of that is not acceptable with the owner of the House.