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OCTOBER 8, 2025              
 
NINE REASONS THEY DID NOT RETURN
 
Dear Snyder's Church Family and Friends,
 
This Sunday we shall read the familiar Gospel lesson
St. Luke 17: 11 - 19 and the sermon theme is
"Jesus Have Mercy On Us Here!"
We shall sing "Sweet Sweet Spirit"; "It Took A Miracle";
"Jesus Paid It All" and other music selected for the Service.
The choir will sing and Jeff will continue the Children's special moment. Plan to be with us. As we read this familiar passage from Luke the question is why did only one man cleansed from leprosy return to thank Jesus?
 
Someone has made a list of nine suggested reasons why the nine did not return:
- One waited to see if the cure was real
- One waited to see if it would last
- One said he would see Jesus later
- One decided that he had never had leprosy in the first place
- One said he would have gotten well anyway
- One gave the glory to the priests
- One said, 'Oh well, Jesus didn't really do anything'
- One said, 'Any rabbi could have done it'
- One said, 'I was already much improved'
 
That's not surprising, is it?
I doubt that more than ten percent of us are ever truly grateful to God.
In fact, it often seems that the more we have, the less gratitude that we feel.
 
At Snyder's Church we do not take gratitude easily.
We are a grateful Church family who loves the Lord and wants to serve Him in all that we do.
We invite you to join our church family where you will find a warm and loving welcome always.
May you be blessed today and may you truly be a blessing to others. See you in Church this Sunday and then plan to stay with us as we have our fall picnic fellowship right after Church and you will find plenty of food and great friendship.
Pastor Bill