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A Pastor with GUTS!

21 Ιανουαρίου 2010

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.

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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.