Pastor Speech... WOW!

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This Pastor has guts!!

Thought you might enjoy this, it’s very interesting.

This is a 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 whole heartedly 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."

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I can only think of one word in response to that: EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The response was immediate.

A number of legislators walked out during the prayer in protest.

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I guess the truth hurts, and hits just a bit too close to home, huh?

[Guest]

First and foremost, its Kansas - only this type of stuff would fly there! But, after thinking about this for a few minutes, some of what the Pastor had to say is pretty accurate no matter where you stand politically. I have always felt that congress on both the state and federal level is completely out of touch and about the only thing they ever agree on is voting to increase their salary. It only seems to have gotten worse - ala that whole Iraq War Supplemental Funding bill thing. Just a sad state of affairs...

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Snopes.com indicates the story is true; however, it goes back to January, 1996.

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I give the guy alot of credit for speaking his mind and doing it where his message can be heard.