Kansas Prayer

Many of you have seen or heard of this 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 confess that we have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it Moral Pluralism.

We have worshipped other gods and called it
Multi-Culturalism.

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.
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 PaulHarvey 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