The time is getting close for your opportunity to get paid $1,000 per second for reciting God's laws to mankind.

It will be on Oct. 26 that self-made millionaire Darrel Rundus, a successful business operator in the marketing field, will start dialing telephone numbers of people who have signed up online on his Ten And Win website, giving each person, in the order they are randomly selected, an opportunity to recite the Ten Commandments in 20 seconds or less.

The first successful contestant gets the $20,000 prize.

"I will begin randomly calling those who entered and the first one I get on the phone who can list the law, in order and do it in 20 seconds or less, will win $20,000.00," he told WND.

(The rules say the actual wording can be abbreviated, so "Do not lie" will qualify as a citation for the longer "Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor.")

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Rundus told WND he was distressed that Americans readily can tick off a list of 10 stores, 10 sports teams – even 10 beers, but there's a collective "Uhmmm" when those same people are asked to cite the Ten Commandments.

He explains:

The project has drawn the support of Ray Comfort of Living Waters ministry and a partner with actor Kirk Cameron in The Way of the Master projects.

"Can you name the Ten Commandments?" Comfort's newsletter asks. "If you can, you could win $20,000.00!!! On October 26th, 2009, our friend Darrel Rundus will randomly start drawing names and calling people who have registered to 'Name Ten' and win $20,000.00. The first qualifying person he gets on the phone who can list The Law, in order and do it in twenty seconds or less, will win $20,000.00."

The campaign has been launched on the Web at the Ten And Win site, and he's even posted a video showing not only that it's possible, but providing tips and hints on how to memorize the law:

Rundus said he and his wife are taking $20,000 of their own money and posting it as a prize that either will be dispatched via cashier's check or wire transfer to the first person who, on Monday, Oct. 26, answers his random telephone calls and can recite the Ten Commandments in order in 20 seconds or less.

"As a Christian I'm honestly and genuinely intrigued that by the approximate 85 percent of the people around the world today who say they believe in God, but when I asked hundreds of them to name the Ten Commandments, they couldn't do it," he said.

"You're putting me on the spot," was one of the responses he got.

From a child, it was, "We go to church every Sunday and I don't know these."

There's a signup procedure on the Ten And Win website. Rundus said it will be from those who enter the competition via the website that names and telephone numbers will be selected randomly.

The calls will continue until there's one winner, he said.

Rundus is founder and owner of the world's largest circulation marketing firm and previously has worked with evangelist Ray Comfort and actor Kirk Cameron, who run The Way of the Master ministries.

Rundus said while the door remains open to running a future competition, for now there will be one challenge, one prize and one winner.

Rundus told WND his goal is very simple, to encourage people to learn the laws on which the United States was founded, and therefore be able knowledgeably to hold policymakers to those higher standards.

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