Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 15:06:50 -0700 From: danda@DOITNOW.COM (Dennis) Subject: A Prayer For The Kansas State Senate To: AZRKBA@asu.edu
From the Paul Revere Network....
>An interesting prayer was given recently in Kansas at the
>opening session of their Senate in 2000. It seems prayer
>still upsets some people.
>
>When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session
>of the Kansas Senate with a prayer, 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 confess
>that:
>
>We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and call
>it "pluralism."
>
>We have worshiped other gods and called it
>"multiculturalism."
>
>We have endorsed perversion and called it "alternative
>lifestyle."
>
>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. Guide and bless these men
>and women who have been sent to direct us to the center of
>Your will, to open our hearts and ask it in the name of
>Your Son, the living Savior, Jesus Christ.
>
>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 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 "The Rest of
>the Story" on the radio 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, that we again can be
>called one nation under God.
>
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