I was reading this blog ( http://psalmonethirtynine.blogspot.com/2008/06/marketing-of-christianity.html ) and saw this prayer written below. We as Americans, we as people, all need to pray this prayer. I know I do. I know we are destined to do God wrong, but that doesn’t make me feel better after I have done so. He is so good. We are so bad. Yet in His immense goodness, He loves us and makes us free if we let Him. Astounding. :)
“Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask Your forgiveness and seek Your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says “Woe to those who call evil good,” but that’s exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and inverted our values. We confess that: We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it moral pluralism; We have worshiped other gods and called it multiculturalism; We have endorsed perversions and called it alternative lifestyle; We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery; We have neglected the needy and called it self-preservation; 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 esteem; We have abused power and called it political savvy; We have coveted our neighbors’ 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, O God, and know our hearts today; try us and see if there be some wicked way in us; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. I ask it in the name of your Son, the Living Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen.”
My friend Leanna (her blog: http://hxchk.blogspot.com ) also wrote this poem, which reminds me of the prayer above. Oh Lord help Your followers.
christianity
christianity is
church on sunday and
wednesday and
always
is blue-eyed and
brown-haired and
bearded and
caucasian
is saying all the right things and
doing all the right things and
being at all the right places
and thinking all the right thoughts
is condeming and
unforgiving and
judgmental and
american
is like the brady bunch meets
a rock concert meets
motivational speaking meets
public demand
is not what He wanted or
what i wanted or
what the world needs or
what it was meant to be
is a competition of
charades, of
facades, of
who can be the most perfect
it is not about forgiveness or
beauty or
completion or
love
is not about love like
He is about love and
about beauty and
is not about Him, just
about us and
is robbing us
blind
