Revd Dr David Southall, the Chaplaincy Team leader for Worcester Royal hospital, was speaking after the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt made fresh calls to provide a "seven-day NHS" in England, where GPs and hospital consultants work weekends as standard.
Jeremy Hunt said he wanted to strike a deal with the British Medical Association, which represents around 150,000 doctors, to make a seven-day NHS possible.
The Health Secretary said he would force health professionals to work weekends as standard, if the BMA refused to negotiate.
He also claimed 6,000 patients die every year because less health professionals are available on weekends than they are during the week.
The BMA has called Jeremy Hunt's approach "a wholesale attack on doctors", and said the argument is silly because doctors and consultants support more weekend working too.
Their Council Chairman, Dr Mark Porter, has also said that it is not lack of will, but lack of funding, which is the reason behind less staff being available on weekends.
Revd Dr Southall also urged us to pray for both government and health professionals, as they attempt to work out a deal.
He told Premier's News Hour that according to a health journal, "The cost of planning and implementing the seven-day service exceeds the maximum amount the NHS can spend, and that it's not sure that will reduce weekend deaths.
"For me, the responses that I've seen on Twitter from consultant friends have been about the blunt tool of a sledgehammer that the Health Secretary is using."
"They're already working weekends, [they say] that it's a system thing, that the funding needs to follow it, that the doctors aren't the roadblock.
"So we need an informed debate that's without this heavy undertone of imposition and, well, threat I guess."
Listen to Premier's Antony Bushfield speaking to Revd Dr David Southall:
