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>>> When minister, Joe Wright was asked to open the
>>>new
>>>session of the Kansas State Senate, everyone was
>>>expecting the usual generalities, but this is what
>>>they heard:
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>>> [The Prayer]:
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>>> "Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask
>>>Your forgiveness, and to seek Your direction and
>>>guidance. We know Your Word says, "Woe on 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 called
>>>it pluralism. We have worshiped other gods and called
>>>it multiculturalism. We have endorsed perversion, and
>>>called it an 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. I ask it in the name
>>>of Your Son, the living Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen."
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>>> The response was immediate. A number of
>>>legislators
>>>walked out during the prayer in protest. In six short
>>>weeks, Central Christian Church, where Reverend Wright
>>>is pastor, logged more than 5,000 phone calls with
>>>only
>>>47 of those calls responding negatively. The church
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>>>now receiving international requests for copies of the
>>>prayer from India, Africa, and Korea. Commentator
>>>Paul Harvey aired the 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.
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>>> 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."
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