Steven Furtick - Stuck in a Bubble (01/29/2026)
In Mark 6, Jesus feeds the 5,000 with just five loaves and two fish, showing deep compassion for the crowd like sheep without a shepherd. The disciples want to send them away hungry, but Jesus challenges them to feed the people themselves. Through this miracle of multiplication, He bursts their limited thinking, teaching that when we respond in faith with what we have, God does the impossible and provides abundance with leftovers.
Jesus Calls the Disciples to Rest – But a Crowd Follows
I want to share from a simple passage of Scripture. I've preached from this Scripture quite a few times. It's interesting because it's one of the only miracles other than the resurrection, and there is one other. But this would be one of the few miracles that is in all four of the Gospel accounts. So each of, you know, you've got Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and they're all giving their account of what Jesus did. And to each of them, this was so meaningful, this miracle, that they each wanted to tell their side of it. So they're like, no, let me tell it. No, then he said, no. And so we get Mark's account today. And Mark gives us a few details that are so interesting.
I'm going to read to you that passage where Jesus fed 5,000 men and women and children. Probably a crowd upwards of 20,000 people, if you include everybody that was there that day. And kind of cool because that's roughly the size of our church at this point. Probably about a similar size crowd that day that would be gathering together this weekend all across all of our locations. And it tells about a miracle. And that's what I'm feeling led in my heart to share with you today.
Let's read in Mark chapter six. If you're new here, we don't make you stand the whole time. But we like to stand sometimes just to honor and respect God's word. And just, it gives a good posture. It gives a good posture to our hearts, I think. It says in Mark chapter six, verse 30, the apostles gathered around Jesus. Just like we're doing. They gathered. They got around Jesus. Somebody should write a song about, like, Jesus being at the center of it all. They gathered around Jesus and reported to him all that they had done and taught.
So, basically, they're bragging about their exploits. And their hearts are full. They've experienced some great ministry, as have we in this church. And it says then, because so many people were coming and going, that they did not even have a chance to eat. He said to them, come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest. Verse 32. Not Chick-fil-A. It was closed on Sunday. So they went away by themselves in a boat to a solitary place.
Compassion Over Convenience: Jesus Sees the Need
But many who saw them leaving recognized them and ran on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them. And when Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them. He had compassion on them. In a culture where it's very easy to get complacent. We pray that God would fill us with his compassion. And that we would be able to see the needs of people as opportunities. And it says he had compassion on them because they were like sheep without a Shepherd. So he began teaching them many things.
Now, by this time, it was late in the day. So his disciples came to him and said, Pastor, this is a remote place. It's getting really late. It's already very late. Send the people away so they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat. But he answered, you give them something to eat. And they said to him, that would take more than half a year's wages. Are we to go and spend that much on bread and give it to them to eat?
How many loaves do you have? He asked. Go and see. And when they found out, they said five and two fish. Then Jesus directed them to have all the people sit down in groups on the green grass. So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. And then he gave them to his disciples to distribute to the people. He also divided the two fish among them all.
And they ate and were satisfied. They all ate and were satisfied. And the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces of bread and fish. And the number of men who had eaten was five thousand. Say amen to the word of God. Amen.
Don't Get Stuck in a Bubble – God Wants to Burst It
I want to preach to you today. It's just a short little devotional thought. I want to preach on don't get stuck in a bubble. Don't get stuck in a bubble. So often happens to us in our lives. We get stuck in our own preconceived notions. And sometimes in our own personal spaces and dysfunctions and our own prejudices. But I want to show from this passage how God wants to burst your bubble. And do things in your life that you never thought were possible before this point.
Tell five people all around you God's going to burst your bubble today. He's going to burst your bubble. In Jesus name. Thanks guys. Well done. You may be seated. I'm excited. To me this is our family Christmas party. We all brought a gift for somebody that we really love. We all brought a gift. When you see people in a few moments they're going to be excited to come give. That's not strange. It would be strange if they weren't excited to give.
When you really love somebody and you got them something that they wanted. You can't wait to give it to them. There are people in this church who are about to bring a gift that they've prepared. To give to God. They really don't give it to the church. They give it through the church. But they're giving it to God. And you'll see their excitement and enthusiasm. If you're not a part of our church family. We welcome you to the party.
Drawing a Bigger Circle: Generosity Expands Your World
Stalker. How'd you get in here? No actually you're about to see a demonstration. A demonstration of some people who when they're drawing the circle. We talked last week about let's bring it full circle. And we talked about how you can either draw a circle that's just big enough for yourself. Or you can draw a circle that's big enough to be about more than you. The world of the generous gets larger and larger. The world of the stingy just keeps shrinking.
And aren't you glad if this church has touched your life in some way. That some people in 2006 and 2007 and 2008 and 2009 and 2010 and 11 and 12 and 13. That when they were drawing a circle and saying what they wanted to give to God. They didn't just draw a small circle that was big enough for them and their family. But they drew a circle that would include campuses that we would launch. Listen to all these campuses. Matthews, Uptown, Blakeney, University City, Gaston, Rock Hill, Concord, Lake Norman. Even in Toronto and Raleigh and Roanoke and Providence. And we have other extension sites.
But think about how that's the result of people who drew a circle big enough to include you in it. When they were making a decision of what to give. And we get the opportunity to do that today.
Modern Twist: Imagining the Feeding Miracle with Text Messaging
I like to imagine the Bible stories in different ways. As if they occurred in different times. It's helpful to me to set them in modern times. And I wanted to imagine this story today as if Jesus and the disciples lived during the time of text messaging. How many of you agree that technology, text messaging specifically, has changed the trajectory and the tone of our communication styles. And the quality of our communication and not always for the better.
We are easier to interrupt and distract than ever before. And we say senseless things to each other now with abbreviations that could not have been conceived of in other generations. And it's an interesting time to communicate. Text messaging for me is a blessing and a curse. Some conversations should not occur over text. Do not break up with him with an emoticon is what I'm trying to say. That's cruel and that's unpardonable. But text messaging is also convenient.
I like to picture this because text messaging has obviously come a long way. Well, I would say digital communication has come a long way since the time of the AOL buddy list. At the time of the AOL buddy list, I remember very, very vividly the sound that the computer would make when Holly came online. Because we were dating, but when we would go home for the holidays, I would wait for Hall Ball 7. Yeah. I still remember her screen name. Don't remember mine. Totally remember hers.
And was it 7? Hall Ball 7? Hall Ball something. But I would wait for the Hall Ball... And AOL buddy list would make a noise with the noise of a creaking door. And the door is open. And that's what I would hear when Holly would come online. And it was an opportunity. And then the door... And then it would make another sound and the door would shut when they would leave. And I, of course, hated that sound.
The Frustration and Meaning of "Bubbles" in Communication
But today, in text messaging, and specifically, if you have iMessage on one of your Apple products... They now have... And I'm going to imagine this story, okay? I actually asked them to hook this up. And it's mirroring this phone, which is not my actual phone. But we've set it up to have a conversation with Sir Round. Hey, hey, hey. It's a special weekend. I got comedy this weekend. Yeah. And we're going to send a message.
And so I can picture the disciples texting to Jesus. I just picture it like this. And the signal isn't good because they're in a remote place, remember. But I can picture Peter probably picks up the phone. And Jesus has been going a long time. And Peter's like, I'm going to text him. And so they start texting Jesus, you know, hey. Jesus. Awesome word.
Oh. It's not my phone. I got a big phone. The keys are further apart. I'm just getting used to this little phone. How many thank God for autocorrect, but it's also gotten you in trouble a couple times? I can't decide if I'm more thankful for it or more terrified of it. For example, when I was sending a text to Wade and I wanted to tell him, make sure that we pump Christmas, which came across that we pimple Christmas. Now that's disgusting. Nobody wants that to happen. But autocorrect is a blessing and a curse.
So just, again, imagine the conversation... Why am I like an 85-year-old who's texting for the first time? I think it really is the screen size. And then you've got to put one of these on the... You know. So now, what I was telling you about, and the reason I mentioned the AOL buddy list and the creaking of the door and the shutting of the door is because, you know, text communication is not real communication. Virtual communication is not real communication.
And so we're at a point as a society now, though, where we don't really know how to carry on conversations, especially those of us who never had to actually have a conversation on the phone. And now we actually get nervous in some cases when the phone rings because we don't know how to carry on a conversation that we can't control. We don't know how to have a conversation that we can't edit, and filter, and backspace, and redo.
But one of the interesting things about all of this technological communication is they are trying to find as many ways as possible to make it mirror real communication. And so there is actually a thing on iMessage, and when I do this, everybody who uses iPhone, you're going to know what I'm talking about. Yeah. I want to talk about this thing. For a few minutes. The technical name for this digital communication tool is the Typing Awareness Indicator. But I don't call it that. That's fancy. I call it the Bubbles.
Stuck in God's "Bubbles": Waiting on the Unseen Response
And the Bubbles are interesting because the Bubbles make you feel like you're being watched as you're responding. And you can sit there and look like you don't know what I'm talking about, but we've all had times where we got a message that we didn't want to respond to right now, but we started responding, and then we knew that the person on the other end was seeing the Bubbles.
See, because the Bubbles indicate that the person you're talking to is typing something, but it doesn't tell you what they're typing. I want to stop and interject this for a moment. Have you ever had God send you Bubbles? Have you ever been, in other words, stuck in a bubble with God where you prayed about something and you needed something and you wanted God to do something and there was something that your life required?
And the thing about these Bubbles, let me make them come up again if I can. They tell me that something is happening, but they don't... Well, they're going to come in a minute. I'm typing. I'm typing, but there's no Bubbles. Y'all prayed for the Bubbles to come back. My whole sermon hinges on these Bubbles. That would make a whole sermon like trusting God in the bubble.
In other words, when you know God is up to something and you want to believe he's up to something, but you don't know what yet, it's hard to trust God in the Bubbles when people are telling you to just wait on the Lord. But in this age of instant communication, I find Bubbles to be very frustrating. I'm a quick texter. How many of you are a quick texter back? What I send you might not be grammatically correct, but I will respond relatively quickly.
We have all kinds of texters. We have quick texters. We have slow texters. We have voice texters who send you indecipherable text messages. Me three, date, you, night. What? Sorry, I was driving. It was a voice text. Oh, that makes it better. The frustrating thing about the Bubbles is that not only does it let other people see that you're trying to type something, and that's rough because, you know, honestly, sometimes I need a little space to craft my message.
I actually had one guy one time, I was waiting to respond to him because I didn't know what I was going to say to what he asked me, and it took me a minute. And I started typing, and then I stopped typing, and then I started typing again, and I stopped typing. And this guy, how creepy is this? He texts me back. He says, I know you're there. I see your bubbles. Now look. That's too far, man. That's too far.
See your bubbles. Tell somebody next to you, I see your bubbles. It didn't sound good. It doesn't feel good. I don't like that. And then there's this. How many of you know about the bubbles? Anybody in here know about the bubbles? Yeah, the bubbles are weird because sometimes you'll send an important message to someone, and here come the bubbles, and the bubbles will be up there for like five minutes, and you're like, oh God, they're typing something deep.
You know, maybe it's a relationship. You're dating, and maybe they're typing me a poem. They're writing me a song. But then all of those bubbles, and then you get something back like, you know, after five minutes of bubbles. Yes. Or my very least favorite. I hate this. Or, yeah, no, I'm trying to do it. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Like it's Wheel of Fortune. Like you got to buy the letters or something. You don't have to buy an O. Just put an O. What's wrong with people? I'm just saying. Sometimes it's crazy in the box. In the bubbles. In the bubbles.
Receive and Respond: The Church Is in the "Bubbles" Right Now
The bubbles represent the space between when you receive a message and when you respond to a message. Communication has two elements. Receive and respond. Receive and respond. Receive and respond. And the space between is called the bubbles. I believe our church today is in the bubbles. Like, we're receiving from God this vision that the Lord has called us together. We said in the beginning of this Surround series that we want to see 100,000 people reached through this ministry. Somebody clap like you have faith that it can happen.
And we've received from God a mission, a mandate, and a goal. But now it's response time. And some people stay stuck in the bubbles. They stay. Well, you get the point. That some people... And see, what happens sometimes is we get switched up and we think we're waiting on God to respond. And he's really waiting on us to respond. And God says, I sent the message. Now it's time for you to respond.
And some people will lie. I never got your text. You totally did. I saw your bubbles. I got your text. But what will your response be? In our passage, the disciples are getting away for some much-needed R&R. Only to find when they leave the place where they've gathered around Jesus and get to the place where they think they're going to enjoy a meal with him, that there are other hungry people waiting. Not hungry physically, as much as they're hungry spiritually.
And Jesus has what they need, for he is the bread of life. However, he wants to teach them a lesson. And so he uses physical bread to teach them about spiritual bread. And he wants to see what their response will be. They had just finished gathering around him, telling him about all the wonderful things that they had seen and done and experienced. What they received. And now he wants to put them in a situation and see how they will respond based on what they have received.
He wants to teach them about a different kind of R&R. Receive and respond. Receive and respond. And so they have a decision to make. Jesus suggested that perhaps Jesus should give the disciples a break and send the people away.
Breaking the Bubble of Comfort – Step Out in Faith
You know what's interesting? Every time I read this passage about the feeding of the 5,000, y'all, I see something new. Because God's word is alive and active. And it's such an interesting, fascinating text. I never noticed verse 31. It says, Because so many people were coming and going, they did not even have a chance to eat before they left to get to the other side. And when I read that, I understood why the disciples wanted to send the crowds away. Because they were hungry themselves.
So Peter sends this text. I said it was Peter. You know, who knows? They said, It's getting late. Send the crowds away. That they can get some food. But it wasn't really the crowd's hunger that they were concerned about. It was their hunger. Because they thought they were going to the other side to eat. But what do you do when you get to the other side and you're surrounded by needs that you didn't plan for? That's the question.
How do you interpret the inconveniences of life? As opportunities or as obligations? And sometimes we as God's people, like the disciples, we get stuck in all kinds of bubbles. I thought, you know, what are the bubbles that God's people get stuck in? And they're all here in the passage. And the first one I thought about is the bubble called comfort.
We get stuck in the bubble of our own comfort, don't we? We get stuck in the bubble of not wanting to venture outside of our comfort zone. And we don't want to be uncomfortable. Most of us, we worship at the altar of comfort. And I don't believe comfort is inherently a bad thing. No way. I don't believe that you have to live a life devoid of comfort. None of us do.
You know, we put pads on your seats for a reason in this church. Some of y'all at the high school campuses are like, I don't know, where's my pad? That's why we're taking a surround offering. I want to get you a pad for your bottom as well. I want to be an equal Cush church. But we must not be comfort driven. Comfort is overrated. Because you can design a life that's meant to be comfortable and not have any comfort in your soul.
You can chase all the comforts of this world and still feel so empty inside. You know, God wants to break some people out of there. That's what's so awesome about an offering. It gives us a chance to get outside of our comfort zone. And I'm grateful again to pastor a church full of people who are willing to get uncomfortable.
Let's be honest. For some of you, it's uncomfortable for you to come to this church. Your family members don't understand why you come here. Your co-workers don't understand why you come here. This is not like how you grew up. You have to wear earplugs to get through the first 23 minutes of the thing. You keep them in while I'm preaching? I'll never understand that. I know I'm loud, but come on.
But I just thank God for people who are more consumed with calling than comfort. Because if it's a calling… God called me here. God brought me here. This is the place where God wants me to be. This is the place where God can use me. This is the place where I can make a difference. And yeah, I might have to get uncomfortable, but I'd rather fulfill my calling and be uncomfortable than miss my calling in my comfort.
Touch three people, tell them, get out of your comfort zone. And some of y'all never touch anybody when I tell you to touch people because it's uncomfortable. But you need to get out of your comfort zone and touch three more people and tell them, get out of here.
The Bubble of Certainty – Faith Thrives in Uncertainty
Send the people away. You know, this reminded me. There's two guys that travel with me called Chunks and Buck. Well, that is Buck's real name. I mean, that sounds funny. I travel with Chunks and Buck. As if that's not funny enough, I actually have another name for them. I call them the Junkyard Dogs. Their eating habits are remarkable. These guys are an embarrassment to your church when they go out on the road with me in a green room. They will clean out a green room.
And Chunks is real funny because he'll masquerade his hunger in the guise of wanting to take care of me. So here's how it'll go. We're out on the road. I'm preaching at 7 P.M. And Chunks will say, you're hungry, aren't you? No? Well, you need to make sure you eat. I want you to get up there. What that means is, I want permission to go find food. I'm going to pretend like I'm doing it for you because I want to eat.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, Jesus. The people are hungry. Yeah, yeah. I love Jesus. Jesus is so cool. Jesus sees right through this. Which one's the Jesus phone? The white one is Jesus. So I need to talk on the white one if I want to be Jesus. Okay. Jesus goes, watch this, watch this. Oh, the other one? You said the white. This is the black. The black phone is Jesus. Black Jesus. What? That was Joel Dove's idea for me to say that. I wouldn't say that on my own, but he planted it.
But Jesus, and you know the disciples, they get this text. You feed them. They're waiting for the next instruction. Where is the food? No. Just an instruction. And maybe one of these guys. Look, y'all, I'm going to leave this screen alone because I'm running out of time. But I want you to understand that God is not obligated to give you all the details.
You know, because the next bubble we get stuck in so often is a bubble called certainty. Certainty. You see it in the disciples' approach. The disciples say, but Jesus, that would take more than half a year's wages. Are we supposed to spend that much on bread and give it to them to eat? Now, you do this all the time when God challenges you in an area of your life. You start asking God to give you certainty and he never will. He can't.
And I'm going to tell you why. I learned this from a researcher named Brene Brown. She wrote an awesome book called The Gifts of Imperfection. And one of the lines in that book, she talks about the essence of faith. Check this out for a mind blow. She says, the opposite of faith is not doubt. So if you have doubts, that doesn't mean you can't have faith because the opposite of faith is not doubt. We think it is. Oh, I'm not a person of faith. I have so many doubts. No, no. Doubt is often the doorway to faith.
The opposite of faith is not doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty. When you meet somebody and they're like, I'm not sure, but I'm trying to learn how to trust God, that's called childlike faith. When you meet somebody and they're like, I don't have my act together yet, but I'm trying to follow Christ. When you meet somebody that doesn't always see the solution, but they're trying to live by faith in a God who is the solution, to me that's much more commendable than somebody who has already got it all figured out.
Because if you have it all figured out, you factored God out. So if you're ever living in a bubble where you've got it all figured out, guess what God will do? He will burst that bubble, and he'll put pressure on your life to make that bubble burst. Well, I thought I had it figured out, and I thought my life was self-contained, and I thought it was certain, and I had it all worked out. But then all of a sudden, God let life burst my bubble so I wouldn't be certain, but that I might be confident.
Confidence vs. Certainty: Trusting God in the Unknown
Now, let me preach on this. There's a difference between certainty and confidence. Confidence is something that you put in something that is other than you. Certainty often revolves around your own ability. Certainty is when I know because I've been here before and I've got this. Confidence is, I don't got this at all, but I've got a God who's got this. I will remain confident in this, that I will see the goodness of the Lord.
God wants to remove certainty. God's favorite terrain is uncertainty. God's favorite terrain is a posture where our hands are up, and our hands are open, and our hearts are open. You don't think Jesus could have packed a lunch for these crowds? You think he was caught off guard? You don't think for one minute that Jesus couldn't have made stuff start falling down out of the sky to feed these people with? It wasn't the point.
He wanted to see if they were confident in him when they were uncertain about the situation. One version of the Bible says that Jesus turned to one of the disciples named Andrew, and he said, How are we going to feed all these people? I love Jesus. And then the writer of that gospel account says, He asked him this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do. Translation, Jesus messes with us. He totally does. He already knew what he was going to do. Why? Because he's cruel? No, because he wants to take away your certainty.
Because the opposite of faith is having it all figured out. Now, Richard Rohr says that faith is patience with mystery. We want to make faith a formula. And so I can't get up here today and say, If you'll give this in the surround offering, God will multiply it by 10 before the new year begins. I don't know. That's what we want. We want certainty. Did I get a warranty on this offering? This is our exchange policy.
And Jesus said, Just bring what you have to me. I want to know if you trust what's in your hands or if you trust my hands to multiply what's in your hands. And he said, I want to burst your bubble.
The Bubble of Calculation – Overcoming Fear of Running Out
And then there's the third bubble: calculation. Where we want to be so logical and rational. You know, Well, if I give this, then I won't be able to do that. And then what if this and what if that? Have you heard of FOMO? FOMO stands for fear of missing out. I think a lot of believers, when it comes to generosity, struggle from FOMO. I made that one up. Fear of running out.
Because we look at what we have and we see what's coming and going. It's like fear of running out. One reason I love to take these offerings is because we get to build campuses. We're going to purchase our Matthews building. And that's going to be an incredible opportunity for us. We're going to build that building in Ballantyne for which you purchased the land. Those of you who gave in the Banner Years offering. And we're already in our Lake Norman location. And we're going to continue paying for that.
We're going to get projects ahead. We've got future opportunities. I'm excited about that. We're going to build that facility for One7, our outreach partner that you heard about. We're going to help those kids. We're going to do all of that. But what I look forward to more now after being a pastor coming up on a decade that I've been pastoring this church, that I know that God is about to give you a math lesson. You're about to find the multiply button in your spiritual life.
Because you've been doing everything by addition and subtraction and you haven't even found the multiplication button yet. And that's what this passage is about. It's about the miracle of multiplication. It's about how God can take a gift that you put in his hand. And here's why I call it multiplication. Because he'll use that gift to bless others. But then somehow, some way, he'll send you home with leftovers too.
How? Because, watch. He is the bread. Because he is the bread of life. John chapter 6. He is the bread of life. So when you bring the bread to the bread, you go home with bread. You don't go home broke. So, receive, respond. Receive, respond. White phone, black phone. Black phone, white phone. God says, I'm waiting for your response. You're in the bubble right now.
The Miracle from an Unexpected Source – The Little Boy's Gift
Now, I'm going to tell you something. Whether you're giving in this offering or not today, if I were a businessman, I would walk into my next staff meeting and I would draw those three bubbles on a whiteboard in my office and I would teach this stuff and I would rip it off and I wouldn't even tell anybody where I got it from because what I'm telling you about what happens to a church also happens in a business.
When you get in a bubble of comfort, your business won't grow. When you get in a bubble of certainty and you're afraid to take risks, that's the worst risk you can take. When you get in a bubble of calculation and everything always has to make sense, you'll never take steps. And so I don't care how you apply this message, but please don't stay stuck in a bubble.
God says, I have things I want to do in your heart, but you're so busy calculating, and you suck at math, and you don't even know it. You know how I know that we suck at math? Because in the passage, in the last verse I read, it says, look at verse 44. It says, the number of the men who had eaten was 5,000.
Does anybody know from reading this story, maybe you went to Sunday school or Bible school, where the five loaves and the two fish came from? Because this one doesn't... Mark doesn't bother to tell us, but it's in one of the other accounts. Does anybody know? It was a little boy. It was a little boy. Look at the verse again, 44. It was 5,000 men. The miracle came from a source that they didn't even count. That they didn't even recognize. They skipped right over that little boy.
And maybe the miracle is going to come from an unexpected source for our church this season. You never know what God will do. I don't know. I'm doing this, obviously. It would be pretty bad if I was taking the offering and not giving an offering. And we are... And I don't say this in order to brag, but in order to lead, we were informed that we're the number one givers in the church this year, not including giving in our church salary. That's from our other... That we've given this year.
And part of me is like... You know, because I am a man, and I do have that competitive vibe. And part of me is like, that's right. And then another part of me is like, come on. Somebody. Who's really blessed. Because maybe you're an unexpected source that God could use. There was a guy in "Kingdom Come" who was able to give a million-dollar check. And we didn't count on it. And it was the reason we were able to open Blakeney. We would not have opened this building without that gift to launch it.
And he was out there like that little boy was out there. We didn't know. And then, but how about the person who's like, "I don't have much". Like, yeah, but neither did the boy. But little becomes much in the Master's hands. All he wants is the response, church. So let's respond now.
We've had several great weeks of vision. This has been an incredible year of ministry. It's time for us to respond. It's time for us to get out of the bubble and respond. I love how it says it in verse 38. When Jesus said, how much do you have? And they take a look and they go and do a calculation. And they say, five. And you see that little dash there? I think that's interesting. That's like the bubbles, you know? It's like calculating, calculating, calculating, typing, typing, typing. And they go, oh yeah, and two fish.
And I think the dash is significant because it represented that they were bringing all that they had to Jesus. The best that they had to Jesus.