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Some helpful material here, however the first point is problematic:

High attendance at Sunday service means the preacher is popular. / Attendance at Prayer meetings means God is popular.

Sunday is the Lord's Day (not the preacher's day), and that includes the Word preached and sung, and it includes prayer. Certainly a church can have extra services specifically devoted to prayer, but we dare not judge the depth of people's faith by how many attend such services. (I personally have attended prayer meetings most of my life, from childhood on. Two of those churches have had very tedious prayer services--one or two people praying 30-minute prayers or going through a prescribed list in a rote way--and I didn't attend at those churches after trying a couple of times.)

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