Steven Furtick - Let's Bring It Full Circle (01/29/2026)
Pastor Steven Furtick preaches from 2 Corinthians 8 about the Macedonian churches' generous giving despite severe trials and poverty, urging the Corinthians to excel in the grace of giving as a test of sincere love, just as Christ became poor for our riches. The key message is to "bring it full circle" by finishing what we start in generosity, turning willingness into action for God's work.
The Macedonian Example of Generous Giving
Look at this in the scriptures. I want to read you something before you take your seat. It's my text for today. I won't read you the whole text, but we're gonna study from 2 Corinthians chapter 8. Verses... I read too many last night. I want to get it a little bit more narrowed today and make the most use of my time. Get my notes spread out here. I'm trying a new system. I shouldn't have showed you that. But 2 Corinthians chapter 8. I want to go verses… Let's start at verse 1 and see how far we should go.
The Apostle Paul, writing to the church in Corinth, says, "And now, brothers and sisters, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the Macedonian churches. In the midst of a very severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity. For I testify that they gave as much as they were able, and even beyond their ability. Entirely on their own, they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the Lord's people." And they exceeded our expectations.
What True Worship and Giving Look Like
What would happen if you started worshiping God and serving God entirely on your own? Like it said here, what if the worship leaders never had to ask you, "Now lift your hands. Come on, sing it out. Uncross your arms. Move. Give us some sign of life." What if I never had to say amen to that? If you were just so excited about the Word of God that you said amen just out of your heart, just, "Yeah! Yeah!" He said that's what happened with giving here in this church.
They urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in the service to the Lord's people, and they exceeded our expectations. And then they gave themselves, first of all, to the Lord, and then, by the will of God, also to us. So we urge Titus, just as he had earlier made a beginning, to bring also to completion this act of grace on your part.
Excelling in the Grace of Giving
But since you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness, and in the love we have kindled in you—see also that you excel in this grace of giving. I'm not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love. Paul says, you talk about love, but if you really love her, you will put a ring on her finger at some point and not just say you love her, but show her your love. It's the same thing with the body of Christ. If you really love Christ, there will come a point where you will be willing to show and demonstrate your love. We are at that point as a church.
He said, I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others, for you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich. Thank you, Jesus.
Here is my judgment about what is best for you in this matter. God only ever wants what is best for you in this matter. If he ever speaks something to you, it's because it's best for you. He always wants the best for you, and he alone knows what's best for you. People don't always want what's best for you. They want you to do what's best for them. But God only ever wants what's best for you. It must matter.
Finishing the Work with Willingness
Last year you were the first not only to give but also to have the desire to do so. Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it according to your means. Let's read verse 12. I already read the whole passage, and now I've read more than I read last night. For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.
The message God gave me to bring today I believe is a clear one. It's an encouragement. It's an instruction. It's a challenge. I want to give you my sermon title today, and I need you to announce it to your neighbor. The title of this message is, "Let's Bring It Full Circle." I need you to find 73 people around you. Tell them, "Let's Bring It Full Circle." Turn all around in your area. Just reach as many people. Just all around in your area. Come on and tell them, "Let's Bring It." Come on, turn around and get somebody behind you. Tell them, "Let's Bring It Full Circle." Everybody give me one of these. Let's bring it full circle.
Understanding the Full Circle of Generosity
That's what we're going to do as this year is. Thank you, worship team. We love you. Give it a good time. A miracle! Amen. They're going to bring some teaching tools in. I want to show you today in a few moments how to bring it full circle. I am always hesitant to showcase my artistic skills to the church. I'm afraid some of you might recruit me to draw something for you when you see how skilled I am. But I just was thinking of this idea of a full circle. I like to keep it simple. That's somewhat of a circle. It's close to a circle.
I thought about how that represents just in a way of thinking about how a circle has no beginning and no end. It represents the unlimited nature of God, and it represents so many things about a circle. It's why they have the wedding ring as a circle. No beginning, no end. It's a symbol of God's love for us, a circle. But let's use it for a minute to represent all that God has given you, all the provision he has surrounded you with in your life, all the blessings he has given you, all the resources he has given you, this idea of full circle.
Next weekend, as a church, we're bringing an offering. Everybody who is a part of this church is going to bring something to the Lord. We don't give to the church. We give to God through the church. So we're bringing an offering to God, and it's very significant.
Why We Talk About Generosity So Much
Somebody said one time… They talk about money a lot at Elevation Church. I'll tell you why. We care a lot about people, and we can't reach people if we don't challenge people to be generous. I would love for somebody to say one time, Elevation Church, that's the church where they care so much about people that they won't stop talking about what it's going to take to reach people, and that it's full of generous people who give themselves first to God and then to the work of God.
That's what Paul is giving us an example of in this passage. He's actually using a sense of competition, which men tend to do, to try to get one church to give more than another church. It's interesting because he's talking about churches in the Macedonian region, actually several churches, the church at Philippi, the church at Thessalonica, and the church at Berea. He's saying to the Corinthian church, these people who had much less than you have gave at a much higher level than you gave.
The Heart Test: Where Your Treasure Is
It's kind of like a bunch of guys getting together in the weight room where you start getting ego involved, and you can get yourself hurt this way. This guy puts on 245, so you think you're going to put a 25 on with the 45s, and then you reach a certain age where that causes you to spend several days in the bed after that if you don't readjust. Paul is saying, like, hey, do you even lift, bro, to the Corinthian church? He's saying, like, hey, do you even love God, really?
And the way you can tell that is not by what you say, but Jesus had this great teaching. He said, "Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." That's a great way to look at it. We can say and shout our love for God all we want, but God showed his love to us by sacrificing his one and only Son. Paul is using that, the ultimate example of Jesus who left heaven, his riches and glory aside, came to the earth, wore a dirt suit like we wear, flesh and bones and blood, and died on a cross so that we might have spiritual riches in Christ.
With those two examples in mind, Paul is saying, now I want you, church, to bring it full circle in your own life, to take what you know about what God has done for you, what you believe about what he can do for you, and I want you to bring it.
The Tithe: Bringing the First 10 Percent
The most basic thing we bring to God as an act of worship is called the tithe. I don't know if this is not a scientific chart, but let's say that's roughly 10 percent of everything God has given to you. The Scripture clearly teaches that when you belong to God, you bring to him as an act of worship the first 10 percent of everything he has put into your life—your salary, your bonus, any source of income—and you bring it to the storehouse. The storehouse in New Testament times would be the local church. Christ died for the local church.
The Scripture teaches that the first 10 percent of everything we have, when we bring it to God, it represents the whole. It's a way of saying thank you to God, because I wouldn't have anything without you, because all that I have comes from you. As a matter of fact, God, it's not even about bringing 10 percent. It's about the fact that all 100 percent is yours, and I want to use this 10 percent as a way to acknowledge that.
God's Promise When We Tithe
Somebody said one time, well, that's a lot of money. You know, 10 percent. That's a pretty heavy cover charge. I have to pay 10 percent to come here. You preach your sermons. Aren't that good, bro? To which I would say, you could come to this church as much as you want forever and never give a dime. You'll always be welcome here. But the only reason there is even a church for you to come to is because of faithful people who bring the tithe and who do it consistently and diligently. That's why you have a place to come to church.
Yet, sadly, somewhere between 10 and 12 percent of people who attend the church and call Elevation their home actually bring the tithe. That's all. I feel a personal sense of failure every time I hear that, but then I realize it's the same in churches all over our nation. That's not good to clap, I don't think, of saying that. I think we should do better. Tell somebody we can do better. We can do better. Absolutely we can.
Surrounded by God's Blessing Through Giving
This passage is going to show us how… I wanted to bring Apostle Paul as a guest speaker to have him say from this passage what we need to do as we get ready for this offering, because I believe God wants to do great things in our church. When we bring in that first 10 percent, he surrounds the rest. Look at Malachi 3, verses 10 through 12. He said, "Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the Lord Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing there won't be room enough to store it."
Verse 11, "I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe," says the Lord Almighty. God says, "When you give me your first and your best, I'll surround the rest. Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land," says the Lord Almighty. When God's people are generous, the world takes notice.
The Macedonian Plea for the Privilege
We saw that last week with our outreach partners. We're seeing how we're going to continue to open churches in our area and beyond so the world can know that there is a God who is strong to save and there is a gospel that's still good news. So, we get into offering. I probably should have a different color, but I didn't think that far in advance. You get to give even more.
It's like, in this passage, Paul uses a funny term. He says, "The church in the Macedonian region urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the Lord's people." Look at verse 4. It's so unbelievable. I feel like you have to see it with your own eyes again. They urgently pleaded with us. How many of you grew up in church at least a little bit, like you had some background in church? Okay. In all your years in church, have you ever seen 2 Corinthians 8:4 happen, where the people came to the pastor and begged for him to take another offering? If this happened in our church, I think I would have a heart attack. I think I would go meet Jesus.
From Pleading for Things to Pleading to Give
See, I live in a home with three children under 10, so I feel like I have a doctoral degree in urgently pleading, both me urgently pleading with them and them urgently pleading with me. I've been on both sides of the ball quite frequently. I'm urgently pleading with them to stop messing up things, ruining things, breaking things, just generally making life more chaotic. I'm urgently pleading they would stop doing that, and they are urgently pleading with me for things they want. They have not yet at this stage in their development. Maybe it's coming. Ever urgently pleaded with me for something they wanted to give to each other? I know your kids are angels. They do. But in our home, the pleading only goes one way.
I wonder if maturity isn't a point you get to, as a believer in Christ, spiritual maturity and life maturity. Where instead of life being all about you circling all the stuff you want… "Oh God, give me, give me, give me, give me, give me, give me…" Where at some point you have to stop and say, "Okay, God, out of all that you've given to me, what can I give to you? You've been so good. You've been so faithful. You changed my life. I'm a product of your grace. I wouldn't have breath. I wouldn't have hands. I wouldn't have skills. I wouldn't have anything if it weren't for you. God, let me be a part of what you're doing." What an attitude.
Tough Times as Ground for God's Provision
I want to get there, you know, because my daughter is not there, and she's three and a half, and she is addicted to Frozen. No, I mean, when you say addicted to Frozen and three and a half, it's like, well, yeah, I mean, those two are synonymous. That's a redundant thing to say, a three-and-a-half-year-old girl. But does your three-and-a-half-year-old girl have to wear her hair in Elsa or Anna braids every day? See, to me that's a sign that it's crossed over from she enjoys the movie to there's something abnormal happening.
The fact that she has 12 Elsa and Anna dolls, but there's one she wants that she doesn't have, and this one sings Let It Go, which is exactly what I want. I want another piece of junk in my house that makes noise and sings because I want to hear it in a different version. I haven't heard it enough. Boy, they brought the papers on Thanksgiving. Her grandmother and my mom brought the papers, and Abby started going through it and looking for what she wanted for Christmas. She got her eyes on that Elsa. Is it Elsa or Anna? Elsa. Yeah, she wanted the Elsa doll. She started asking me for that thing. I mean, from sunup to sundown, because I told her, "We'll see. We'll see." The two most useless words.
When you say, "We'll see," to a three-and-a-half-year-old, you're basically saying, "Make my life miserable until I break down and commit to giving you whatever you want." That's what that's translated in that parlance. She started coming to me. "Daddy, did you see yet?" First thing in the morning. "Good morning, Daddy. Did you see yet?" "Did I see what?" "Did you see about my Elsa doll?" Do you wake up every morning, you know, "God, did you see? Do you see what I need today?" Or, "God, let me see today what I can give. Let me circle something, put something in my path."
Scarcity Leading to God's Sufficiency
Now, I'm not here yet, but Paul says there were some believers we ought to emulate, and they didn't have as much as we have. In fact, they were in the midst of a very severe trial. I don't think this means that they had to skip Starbucks every now and then, by the way, or that their retirement account was down significantly in 2011. It says very severe trial. We're thinking famine. We're thinking, you know, very, very little resource.
But it's interesting, verse 2, he says, in the midst of a very severe trial, their overflowing joy and extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity. Let me give you something to write down on your note sheet. Tough times are good ground for God's provision. I don't know if a lot of us in the room really know what tough times are. Perhaps you do. But I see through studying Scripture and people's lives that I've observed that tough times can be, if you till the soil the right way, good ground for God's provision.
He said they were in a tough time, but they got to a point where they gave as much as they were able, and then God stepped in, and they saw the miraculous. I point this out because often our scarcity is the starting place for us to discover God's sufficiency. Isn't that pretty preaching? When you get done writing that down, say amen. Clap your hands or something.
Generosity Finds a Way, Greed Finds Excuses
If we never had scarcity… There's always an excuse. I've talked to millionaires who can't give right now because their funds are frozen until… I've talked to people who are 14 years old, and they say, well, what can I give? You're missing the point. It's in the midst of what you perceive to be scarcity. God says, I want you to start here. I don't want you to start with what you have and what you think you can do and what you can make sense of, because then you won't need any faith.
Faith is the fertile ground where good things grow, where God things grow. You don't need faith when you have sight. If you can always see your sufficiency, you'll never see God's. How many know when you come full circle and you've been through some things and you trusted God in some ways that it was hard to trust him and it was hard to step out and it cost you a little bit and it was uncertain? That's when you come full circle and you say, wait a minute. I found out when I didn't have it, but I gave what I could, and even beyond what I could, God showed up and he showed me that his grace is sufficient for me.
See, if all you saw was your sufficiency, you'd never see God's. Here's the problem with your sufficiency. It's a limited resource, but God's sufficiency… We tap into something, and it's not just stuff, y'all. We tap into spiritual resource and peace and joy and purpose. To experience this, you have to bring it full circle. You can't wait until you don't have any hard times to trust God in big ways. Some of you are missing a miracle in your life because you are making excuses.
Good Intentions vs. Personal Initiative
As long as you make excuses, see, here's what I found out about generosity. Generosity and greed operate from completely different standpoints. Greed will always find an excuse. Generosity will always find a way. When you really want something, you go outside of your comfort zone. When you really want something, you scheme to get it done. I think a lot of us don't really care about the gospel as much as we claim to. I don't think it's as important to us as we say it is. I think that's our problem a lot of the time.
We give God a little, okay, Lord, and God goes, really? Here's the thing that trips me up the most often. I have good intentions. Do you know where most of our dreams and our ideas and our initiatives die? I'll give you the abbreviation. We call it GOGI, the Graveyard of Good Intentions. You ever been to the Graveyard of Good Intentions? This is all the stuff I'm going to do when I get around to it.
Good intentions don't get it done. Anything. You know what Paul is saying in this passage? He's getting the Corinthian church prepared. He's saying, hey, I know you have the desire. I know you have good intentions. I know you have a good heart. That's what people will say. Well, his heart is good. He's mean. He never says anything nice to anybody. He never does anything good for anybody, but he's got a good heart. Well, I have a big heart. That's kind of almost as dumb saying that if you're not generous in your habits, because your habits are more important than what you say about your heart. Your habits reveal your heart.
Drawing Your Circle of Faith and Sacrifice
Paul said, don't just have the desire, but finish it. Do what you said. Do what God told you. Do it. He said, do it, because good intentions don't get the gospel out. People say this. You ever heard this? Well, my heart goes out to them. What exactly does that do for them when your heart goes out? You probably ought to get your heart back, and you're going to need that. They don't need your heart. They need your help.
Don't tell me your heart goes out to me, and you won't do anything to help me when I need help. My heart goes out to you. Jesus said, where your treasure is, your heart will be also. So we have the opportunity now. Paul said, I want to put you to the test. You say you love God. You say you love people. You've experienced his grace. Bring it. Bring what you say full circle.
I loved what Tom Lehman shared. He said, my son is in heaven. Somebody took the medicine that was in their cabinet out of the cabinet and gave it to somebody who needed the gospel. It wasn't good intentions that did that, y'all. It was personal initiative. Good intentions don't get the gospel out. Personal initiative does. While I'm at it, good intentions don't shed body fat. Good intentions don't get you out of debt. Good intentions don't help your marriage grow. Good intentions don't raise children. Personal initiative does.
The Sneakerhead Illustration: Heart vs. Habits
Paul said they took initiative. See, they were going to leave the Macedonians out of the offering because they were like, no, no, you don't need to give. You guys are going through a hard time. They came to Paul and said, don't you dare leave us out. We have to get in on this. I love it. They took initiative. Initiative. Not intentions. Initiative. Not intentions. Quit saying, I'll get around to it and bring it full circle. Do it. That's what I'm saying.
Come here, Dougie. In Australia, they call it sledging. Dougie, I'm not sledging on you. I'm not picking on you. You knew I was going to do this illustration. You were fine with it. Dougie is a sneakerhead like I've never seen before. I had heard about sneakerheads. I heard that there were people who spend all of their time tracking what the next shoe is and all of this. I didn't understand it until I met Dougie. Now I do. It's a hobby. It's a disease. He says lifestyle. I say disease. But God bless him for it.
Sometimes he helps me. I like to wear sneakers too, and he has taught me. It's really cool. I like it. Sometimes when I preach, I get more comments on my J's than my sermon, and that kind of hurts my feelings. But whatever. Dougie has a closet full of sneakers. What are those sneakers right there? Slam dunk Jordan Sixes. I had to put the mic where he could say it. Slam dunk Jordan Sixes. There's a whole story behind that and when they came out. I don't know all that, but he told me he has 30 pairs of sneakers in his closet. He buys them and sells them and distributes shoes.
But I asked him, Dougie, do you play ball? What I found out is… Watch this life lesson. A closet full of shoes doesn't make you a ball player. A heart full of good intentions doesn't make you generous. Lululemon does not make you limber until you stretch in that apparel. It's not what you would do if you could. It's what you will do with what you have. Let's bring it full circle.
The Privilege Greater Than the Price
Because somebody could have sat in this church and said, you know, I have good intentions, but they didn't just have good intentions and a generous heart. They built it into their life and said, I'm going to make a sacrifice. God, let me get in on what you're doing. I want a piece of this. Fitness gear doesn't make you fit. You can have a big heart and bad habits and still miss out on what God wants to do in your life.
I feel like I'm having to maybe spend a little bit more time on this than I wish I would. I wish we were all so moved by what God had done in our lives. I just wish we were more like these Macedonians, where it wasn't so much about us all the time. Yeah, God will bless your life. God has blessed my life. He has given us all things richly to enjoy. He wants to enlarge our life. You know what the coolest verse on generosity I ever saw in the message translation of the Bible, Proverbs 11:24? He says, The world of the generous gets larger and larger, but the world of the stingy gets smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller.
God has blessed all of us with different amounts. It's not about the amount you give to God. It's about the attitude of your heart when you do. It really is. I wanted to show a side-by-side comparison, so I had him set this up as well. This is the Post-it cam, this little guy here. What Paul is doing in his side-by-side comparison… He is saying, Hey, Corinthians, God has given you so much, and I want to show you someone who could have had an excuse, but instead of making an excuse, they made a way, how they took what little they had, and they gave…
Let's try that again. I don't know if it's going to get much better than that. The circle gets a square. Hey! I want to ask you something. This is just the simple ways God speaks to me, and I kind of saw this in my mind. Here's one circle that represents somebody's gift. Let's say the size of the pad represents what you have, and the size of the circle represents what you give. Here's another circle. Technically speaking, which circle is bigger? Yeah, yeah. Big boy.
But from God's perspective, I wonder… We see this circle as bigger, but God says, I don't measure the size of the circle. I measure the size of the sacrifice that the circle represents. This guy… Man, these Macedonians gave so much. They got beyond their ability. Oh, by the way, when you start giving in a way that needs God, he'll make your circle bigger. He said, Okay. I see your heart. I see your faith. I'll fill what you bring me. I'll fill what you bring me, God says.
You Draw the Circle of Impact
So, you want to bring me this? That's all I can fill. If that's the size of your faith, that's what I'll fill. I'll work with what you give me. But if you want to see me enlarge your world and enlarge your heart… Look, the marker is in your hands, church. God says, You draw the circle. How much of a difference do you want to make? How much stake in what I'm building do you want to have? You draw the circle. You don't always get to determine the amount of resource, but you do get to determine the size of the circle.
Like Lily Hewbacca, one of our staff kids, I had a bunch of people over the day after Thanksgiving for the first annual Furtick Thanksgiving Remix dinner. You know, bring your leftovers. Let's carve out one more time. We had this thing, and there were a bunch of kids over at my house, and I saw visions of chaos, and so I decided to utilize a bribe. I put a $50 bill in the middle of the table, and I said, This $50 bill is for the best-behaved kid tonight, and it's going to be taken from a vote from among the kids of who was the nicest, and so when you bring your torches to Tribal Council tonight, you will vote off the island.
Lily Hewbacca, the reason I said her name, because she won the award. She also took the votes, by the way, which I thought was a little sketchy. Lily is 11. I think she just turned 11. Did she just have a birthday? Yeah, it was a long time ago. She's about to have a birthday, so she had a birthday like 46 weeks ago or something like that. But she's 11 right now, and she came up and said, Pastor Stephen, I won the competition. I said, But Lily, you also took the votes. She said, Don't worry, Pastor Stephen. You want me to win. I said, I do. Why do I want you to win? She said, Because I'm giving half to surround. I do want you to win.
I thought about putting another 50 with it, but I didn't do that. I had good intentions to do it, but I didn't do it. Now listen. For somebody, that would be a sacrifice. God says, I see your circle. That's a big circle for you. But for some of you, $25,000 wouldn't even be a sacrifice. It wouldn't. At one point in my life, that would have been a sacrifice. At this point, for me, I have to go higher than that to reflect what God has done in our lives. God wants to know, If I keep blessing your life, are you going to keep the circle the same size?
Surrounding the City Together
I know this is kind of a messy drawing. Maybe I should get a clean sheet and start over. This is kind of the idea that is set forth in the Scripture. If we'll all together draw the biggest circle we can, this guy can give $100,000. She can't. She can give $25,000. This guy can give a million dollars. She can't. If this guy gives as much as he is able, if she gives as much as she is able, it will. Together we get to surround. Together. We can't do it alone, but together.
I showed you, week one, our theme verse. We haven't come back to it a lot, but how I-485, the freeway that surrounds our city for our friends out of the area that sort of surrounds our city, that almost surrounds our city, how I-485… You know, it's never done. We were driving I-485 when we decided to start the church here, and it gave me the picture for this idea. Let's surround the city, and the highway is never done. We're never done. We have more work to do. Come on. We have to reach people.
God Brings It Full Circle
I showed you that, how Isaiah 48:5, which is kind of cool, where God says to his people, "Therefore, I told you these things long ago. Before they happened..." God said, I announced them to you so that you wouldn't think… God says, in other words, I brought it full circle. I spoke, and then I showed you. I told you, and then I showed you. I said it, then I did it. I kept my promises. I've been faithful to you, and now I want to see your faith. Will you bring it full circle?
I'm so glad that the God of the universe didn't just have good intentions toward us, that Jesus, who was rich, became poor so that we in his name might have all that we need. God says, Now I want to know, Will you bring it full circle? Are you going to bring me the best you can bring? That's what I want to know. Are you going to bring it full circle? I gave it to you. It all started with me. It's all mine. When you give to God, you're not really giving. You're returning to the one who gave it, and you bring it full circle.
The cool thing about the circle is it doesn't stop, because God says, If I can get it through you, I can get it to you, and I'll bring it full circle. That's why this church gives so much money away. I want God to know, If you'll bring the resource, we won't just sit on it and get complacent and fat and lazy. We'll give it away. We'll build another campus. Yes, Lord. We'll build a campus. Yes, God. We'll go to enough. Yes, God. We will bring it full circle. Bring it. It's time for you to finish the work. Wow.
Tell somebody, Bring it full circle. Bring it full circle. I want to show you something. Sit down if you stand. I want to show you something. We did this last year. To really bring it full circle, you have to understand, on a personal level, why we give. I like to show that in a creative way. Ultimately, after you've given… How many of you have given to the church before in a way that was significant to you? Yeah.
I don't know if that's exactly accurate, what just happened there, but maybe you gave a prayer. That's what we'll assume. Math don't add up, what I just saw. It's cool. If you did, you ought to be glad you gave. When you give, you see on the other side, when it comes full circle, that the privilege is always greater than the price. There's really no such thing as sacrifice, because the privilege, when you see it full circle, you see that the privilege is greater than the price.