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Every once in a while, you'll read a story similar to the one I read this past week. It was about a man who was arrested in New York for failure to pay child support. That isn't so rare. What was rare was that the man was actually an FBI informant who was posing in Soho as an Austrian Prince named Josef Von Habsburg-Lothringen. It turned out that all of his bragging about losing and making money at the bank he ran, the lederhosen in which he ran around, and even his entire life, were nothing but lies. You have to wonder why no one ever questioned it. I mean, an Austrian Prince living in New York City? Sounds rather preposterous, doesn't it? Yet, for several years, he managed to fool everyone - including himself. Still, why didn't anyone even question his story? After last week's message, you wonder what the response would have been. Would the blind man's friends and religious leaders simply say: "Wow, that's great!" Or, would they ask some simple questions to see what really happened? Worse, would they continue to react in the same fashion that they seemed to do throughout John's entire Gospel? I encourage you to join us on Sunday as we see reactions to what happened to the man who was given sight. Take a few moments and read John 9 to recap last week and see what happens next. Can't wait to see you all on Sunday! Thomas