This Pastor has 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."