The professional observers and media pundits suggest that now Bill Clinton has only his place in history to work toward. He will now be judged against the giants of the past, Lincoln, Truman, Wilson. That is one of the ways that history works. We judge the current events by the standards set in the past. Current NBA stars are now being set against the stars from the last fifty years. Madonna versus Marilyn Monroe. John Updike compared to Nathaniel Hawthorne. And when you compare the preaching and praying of the public church, the church on radio, the church in the public press, with the preaching and praying of Saint Paul, as in this letter to the church at Ephesus, one cannot miss the dramatic change that has taken place in preaching and praying as well. Listen to the preaching and prayin…