A Pastor With Guts!

_{There might be hope yet!}

_{A Pastor with GUTS!}

_{Thought you might enjoy this 
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 .}

_{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.'}

_{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 entire world.}