This Pastor has guts!!

Thought you might enjoy this interesting prayer given
in Kansas at the opening session 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 to seek your direction and guidance.
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 confess that we have ridiculed the absolute truth
of Your Word and call it Pluralism.

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 our children and
called it building self esteem.

We have abused power and called it politics.

We have coveted our neighbour's 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-honoured 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 immediate. A number of legislators
walked out during the prayer in protest..

In 6 short weeks, Central Christian Church, where Rev.
Wright is pastor, logged more than 5,000 phone calls
with only 47 of those calls responding negatively.

The church is now receiving 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 received 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. "If you don't stand for something, you will
fall for everything."