Minister of protestant group upsets senate house 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.
