A Pastor with GUTS!

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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!   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.'