Oh No, He's Telling the Truth

When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of theKansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, butThis 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 andCalled 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 abused power And called it politics.

We have coveted our neighbour'sPossessions and called it ambition.

We have polluted the air With profanity andPornography and called itFreedom of speech and expression.

We have ridiculed the timeHonoured values of ourForefathers and called it enlightenment.

Search us, Oh, God,And know our hearts today;Cleanse us from every sinAnd 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 isPastor, logged more than 5,000 phone calls with only 47 Of thoseCalls 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.