A Pastor with Guts.

A Cousin of mine from New Jersey e-mailed me this:

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 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!

What they did:
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 .