The Way Back to Wholeness

Imagine living a life where your diagnosis becomes your identity. A life where you don’t greet people—you warn them. “Unclean.” That was the soundtrack of leprosy. You lost your place in the community, your spot at the table, your touch, your dignity—piece by piece. Your world shrank to the edges of town, where people looked through you instead of at you. Leprosy didn’t just attack the skin; it eroded the soul. And into that silence, that shame, and that slow-motion exile… Jesus walked straight toward them.

Pastor Mark Garrett leads through the story of the ten lepers in Luke 17, where gratitude becomes more than a feeling—it becomes a turning of the heart. When one man “saw he was healed” and returned to Jesus with praise, his gratitude opened the door to a deeper kind of wholeness. This sermon invites us to slow down, notice God’s faithfulness, and rediscover the power of gratitude to clear our vision and steady our hearts.