Welfare, Choice, Politics, Ambition, Enlightenment

Pastor with GUTS!
Retrieved from email FWD by Pat Darnell  |  [Source Unknown]
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 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 neighbor'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-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 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.'