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, a'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 withonly 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?