A PASTOR WITH 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 genialities, but this is what they heard:

Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask Your forgiveness andto seek your direction and Guidance.We know your wordays, '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 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
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 Legislatorswalked
out during the prayer in protest. In 6 short weeks, Central Christian Church, where Rev. Wright is pastor, loggedmorethan 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.'

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.
How many people in your address book will not receive this prayer..... do you have the guts to pass it on?