When you bring a person into your life, you not only bring that person, but you bring the spirit that person has with them. If it is negative, you get it. If it is critical, you get it. People do not just bring their physical presence.
Prayer was the secret of the early Methodist preachers who were not well educated. With their limitations they succeeded because they were men of prayer. E.M.Bounds
The Minister prays AS an ordinary Christian, else he is a hypocrite. He prays MORE than ordinary Christians, else he is disqualified for the office. Sturgeon