Pastor
with Guts
This
Pastor has guts!! Thought you might
enjoy this interesting Prayer given in Kansas at the opening session of their
Senate (date unknown). 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.
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We have exploited the poor and called
it the lottery.
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We have rewarded laziness and called
it welfare.
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We have killed our unborn and called
it choice.
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We have shot abortionists and called
it justifiable.
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We have neglected to discipline our
children and called it building self esteem.
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We have abused power and called it
politics.
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We have coveted our neighbor's possessions
and called it ambition.
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We have polluted the air with
profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression.
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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."
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?”