A Pastor with guts!

Thought you might enjoy this interesting prayer given in Kansas at the opening sessin of their Senate. It seems prayer still upsets some people. When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard.

Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and seek your direction and guideance. We know your word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good', but that is exactly what we have done.

We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.

We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.

We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.

We have killed our unborn and called it choice.

We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.

We have neglected to discipline and called it building self esteem.

We have abused power and called it politics.

We have coveted our neighbors possessions and called it ambition.

We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression.

We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.

Search us, oh God, and know our hearts today;cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Amen!

The response was immidiate. A number of legislators walked out during the prayer in protest. In six short weeks, Central Christian Churchwhere Rev, Wright is pastor, logged more than 5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those responding negetively. The Church is now recieving international requests for copies of this prayer from India, Africa, and Korea.

Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, 'The Rest of the Story,' and recieved a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired.

With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called 'one nation, under God'.

If possible, please pass this prayer on to your friends.
Think about this: if you forward this prayer to everyone on your e-mail list, in less than 30 days it would be heard by the world.

Love and God bless.