This Pastor has guts!

[HARDCORE]

Thought you might enjoy this interesting prayer given in Kansas at the opening session of their Senate. It seems prayer still upsets some people. Please read.

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 speech and 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 as large a response to this program as he has to any other one 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 anything."

Think about this: If you forward this prayer to everyone on your email list, in less than 30 days it would be heard by the world.

[Keith_Hixson]

This prayer was prayed, I believe, over 5 or 6 years ago. I caused quite a stir back then. But, the truth of many of the statements still holds true. If you notice he didn't play favorites, he knocked both parties pretty much equal. He has never been asked back to say a prayer.

Keith

[HARDCORE]

Sometimes the truth is a pill that is encapsulated within a bitter casing. It is, and always will remain, however, the truth....

VERITAS

Rick

[Keith_Hixson]

I felt that there were some generalities in the prayer. I thought the dig on welfare wasn't totally fair. Sometimes people need it but by the same token I've seen people take advantage of it. But it certainly does have a conservative edge to it.

Keith

[Robert Ryan]

Man politicans hate something they can't control or deny to be fact.