mercy.

I just watched Beware of Christians with my parents. My heart is so crushed. Yes, the movie was great. Yes, the guys were changed. Yes, Jesus changed them and used them. My heart is broken for two reasons. First, because I need movies and people and stuff to remind me of the gospel of God's GRACE for us. These things turn into motivation and it makes me wonder if I even love the Man who gave it all to continue giving it all for all eternity. to me. and hopefully you, too, but He did it for me. Yes, God's glory. Yes, obedience, Yes, "God so loved the world." ..but to think the Almighty Creator of petrified wood and snotty toddlers, snobby golfers (not all of them) and sweet, little, old ladies loved me enough to endure my sin against Him to reconcile me through the Cross. Are you kidding? I need a movie to remind me of this? In the words of Isaiah, "Woe is me! I am ruined!" Holy God, have MERCY on me, a sinner!

Second, and this isn't in judgment but in brokenness, my father responds with... "I enjoyed that movie." My parents leave the room and literally everything I just wrote is pulsing through my brain. You know those times when you have a headache you just can't shake and everything else just kind of fades? That is literally nothing like what I went through... but it gives you a pretty good picture of my thoughts weighing down on me. I began to fight tears as I wondered how we could claim, "we just don't get it," after reading Crazy Love or Radical or any John Piper book, blog, or article ever written, and we swear up and down we're changing... and nothing. ever. happens. This is me. Hi, I'm Ryan Sears, and I'm a suckaholic. I take the cake in being the foremost of SUCKY Christians. But I'm not okay with staying that way. at all. I really DON'T get it, and I am really NOT okay with it.

So what's going to change?

My new morning routine. Well, part of it. When I look in the mirror, I will then ask this guy, "Why are you a Christian?"

...

and then I'll respond, "Jesus opened my blind eyes, and I have never been the same."

That's it? Ryan, all you're going to do is ask a dumb question in the mirror? You're a creep AND an idiot.

Not quite. Well, you're right, but there's more to it. I am a Christian for one reason and one reason only. JESUS, and only Jesus, granted me sight, opened my eyes, removed the veil covering my face, HE saved ME. BY grace THROUGH faith. Salvation is NOT by faith. I'm not down for hot debates and all that, but my heart was set ablaze by grace and my only available response was to believe. I had been changed and there was no denying it. So now, because of Jesus' cross and gracious invitation to follow Him, I follow Him.. again, by grace alone. If my day doesn't line up with my answer, am I REALLY a Christian?

If our lives are more about us than they are Jesus, are we really following Him?
Seriously..

do you REALLY follow Him?

If you aren't committed to knowing Him, to looking like Him, to conforming to His image, to shaping your heart and life to resemble His, are you really a Christian?

Do you just go to church, do Christian things, read Christian books, hang out with Christians, listen to Christian music, or do you legitimately WANT, long for, desire, crave, need, faint without Jesus?

Our lives are about Him and Him alone.. not us.

so what now? We pray. You know your heart and I hope you have seen a small glimpse of mine at least.
Pray that God would radically stir our affections for Him and that He'd rip us out of this easy-believism we've fallen into. He gives grace to the humble. James 4:5 or 6 or 7? Humble yourself before God and pray that I would do the same. Let's hold fast to His mercy and extend His grace as if it has really, truly changed us.

I love you. I really, really do. I'm praying for whoever you are. I pray you'll do the same. God, please grant us understanding and faith to trust that You are faithful. Here am I; send me.

preach what you practice.

As humans, I think it's natural to have a disdain for hypocrisy. False advertising, betraying friendships, faulty leadership.. We are surrounded by it and I doubt anyone enjoys that. The only problem this poses is we're all hypocrites. When was the last time you said something but didn't do it. Think of how ridiculous this is: what if a cowboys fan never went to or watched any games, didn't own any cowboys attire, or didn't tell anyone they were a fan. Or what if somebody bought a cowboys jersey and said they played for the team. wait... whatttt? that wouldn't make any sense! I know what you might be thinking. Ryan, why are you bringing up the cowboys? psych.. it's probably a question of why I'm talking about hypocrisy and such. Well.. we have coined this nice little phrase that I would like to repair and hope to help us all walk away with a new perspective that spurs us on to walk a little taller and look a little more like Jesus.

Practice what you preach.

We have probably all said it or been mad at someone who didn't manage to accomplish it. I'm here to redeem it.. hopefully. But we'll have to deconstruct it a little before we can rebuild a better, more applicable saying. The problem with practice what you preach is its emphasis on talk. Paul said God's kingdom isn't about empty talk, but power and action (1 Cor. 4:20). Our culture is one of saying and doing completely different things. Politics, hollywood, the church.. hypocrisy is the way of the world, but there's a reason for it and we all know what it is. Sin. No, not acts of rebellion against God but the force that draws us to commit those acts. We're spiritually dead aside from Christ and we will always commit acts against the Character of God until we submit to Him.

So what does that mean for our beloved statement? We flip it. Preach what you practice. This statement is far more realistic and far more practical. Want proof? here we go.

Back to Paul, the apostle and slave of Christ. In his letter to the Galatians, he is rebuking the churches of Galatia who had Judaizers come and turn them away from the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They were people who were persuading believers they had to follow the Jewish Law to be a follower of Christ. Paul writes in verse ten of the first chapter, "For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If i were still trying to please man, I would not be a slave of Christ." The Gospel he preached to them was the gospel he practiced. It was what he lived every single day; it was everything to him.

What's the gospel? The gospel is literally the "good news" of Jesus Christ. He came and lived a perfect life, died a perfect death, but didn't stay dead. He came back to life and secured for all peoples the ability to be returned back to communion with God. Remember the sin thing we talked about earlier? That's what separates us from Him. The solution? We turn away from living independently, apart from God, and believe Christ's sacrifice was enough to restore what we destroyed; that's salvation. Good news, huh? You probably already knew that, and if you didn't, comment or find me on facebook or twitter or whatever and we'll grab coffee, yeah? sweet, moving on.

So Paul is saying in this verse, "I'm not compromising the work Christ did on the cross or what He's done in me. I don't care what men say, I'm going to give Christ everything and preach the truth that He gave everything for us and it was enough." The theme of this verse is identity. Paul knew who he was which determined what he did. He was a slave of Christ and so he gave everything to follow Him. He preached the truth because He practiced the truth. Who you are determines what you practice; what you practice is what you'll preach. What does that mean?

Preach who you are.

Paul was all about preaching his identity. He did it to intro all the letters he wrote to churches. His name had been Saul and eeeeeeeeveryone knew Him because He was killing Christians. Then, the road to Damascus happened and He became one. Him opening all of his epistles with "Paul" is a testament of grace, a proclamation of the Gospel of Christ. He preached who He was.

Preach who you are. Plain and simple. Preach the good news of Christ to yourself daily and revel in what He's done for you. When you constantly have an understanding of who you are, it will change what you practice. When you're constantly practicing the gospel, you'll be preaching the gospel. You'll radiate it.

Hallelujah, praise the Lamb. The cross was enough. I love you guys.

shattered.

tonight i learned reeeeeeally quick what Jesus experienced for people. Matthew 9: 36 says Jesus saw the crowds He was healing and preaching to, and He felt compassion for them. Think about that. The God of all love, the very source of love, comes and puts on flesh.. then, as He is expressing that love, He feels compassion. Can we not feel the weight of this? Jesus was overcome with an extra dosage of longing for these people. He felt for them. Empathy overtook the Messiah and it birthed a desire in Him to see them loved. Why did He feel this way? "They were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd." Jesus saw a people trapped and in desperate need of help. He was moved deeply within His soul to call the disciples to action.

Here's the catch.

We are those disciples. Jesus has called us to pray for God to send workers into the harvest field. The problem here is, once you start praying, He stirs you to become what you're praying for. I said problem for a reason. We aren't any different from the crowds Jesus felt compassion for. There is one thing that separates us.

We are harassed as they are. Our harassment, however, is our own comfort. We find it entirely too hard to step out of our well-being, our contentment, our complacency. The problem of remaining comfortable is losing the commission of the One who showed us compassion in the first place. He called us to feeeeeeel what He felt and to be vessels of His love and redemption to others; we're too comfortable to heed His command? Have we come so far to believe that God is for our convenience instead of His own glory and bringing freedom to the captives?

The difference between "us" and "them" is helplessness. We are not helpless; we just refuse to help ourselves. The God of all existence has called us to be His hands and feet, scratch that, He's called us to GO.. simple. He said, "Go." Romans 10 says, "beautiful are the feet that bring the good news." feet.. all He said was go and He'll do the rest for you. He's with us ALWAYS. What is there to fear?! We are not helpless; We have overcome our harassment.

We have overcome our comfort.

Jesus stepped out of Heaven; the least we can do is get off the couch and step out our front door with the intention of sharing what means most to us.

Tonight, I was reading at starbucks and this mother and her daughter walked in. I took a quick glance and went back to reading. The mother seemed detached and the daughter, somewhere around 14 years old, looked like she walked out of Hot Topic and right into Starbucks. Don't get me wrong, I used to go there for band shirts, but I think I helped you grasp a mental picture. They sat down on the couch across from me, so OF COURSE I'm going to eavesdrop. Jesus did it to the disciples; don't judge me. They immediately pull out their phones and there is no connection between them. Finally, they interact and what followed was heartbreaking. The mother nags and nags because she feels her daughter is "too far gone" (my assumption, but it's spot on, i'll betcha). The daughter has never known what love looks like.. which explains her desperate cry for attention by her outfit. She just. wants. love. Don't we all? Can you blame her? Can you see how she is harassed and helpless, in desperate need of the One, True Shepherd. It got worse. The mother inquired about the scabs on her daughter's arms. She had been cutting herself. The conversation became heated quickly and the daughter stood up and said they were leaving.. and they did. Broken. Shattered. I cried out to God for breakthrough. God is faithful. If you ask Him to break your heart for what breaks His, He'll come through.

God is not looking for swarms of people, He's looking for a few good men who will carry the torch of love to the nations. The fire follows, but He's looking for a few good men (and women) to cry out to Him to send workers and to then become those workers. You will have to leave your comfort, but I prefer to find my rest and refuge in the Lord and not myself. I refuse to let a rock cry out in my place. Choose you this day whom you will serve, right, Joshua? Well.. as for me, I'll serve the Lord.

There's room at the Cross for everyone. Act like it.

God, move in us and through us. Break us and move us to usher in brokenness. Bring breakthrough. Come to us, Jesus. Oh, Jesus, come to us. Let it be so.

Catalysts

"When will we surrender.
When will we strive for what is good and not for what man has created.
When will we no longer trample the poor.
Ignore the stomachs of the starving.
Renew the hearts of the hopeless and the strength of the helpless.
Those who can't stand on their own two feet.
Those who can't stand on their own two feet.
We gotta change what means the most to us.
When will we look to the hurting before we bandage our own wounds.
We say we are martyrs, but we'd only die for ourselves.
We gotta mend the wounds of the desperate.
We have the power to change circumstance.
We have the power.
We have the power to change.
Let us rise above the storm.
Rise above the storm.
Set sail into the sea.
Set sail into the sea.
Into the sea.
When we pass through waters, we will not sink.
When we walk through fire, we will not be set ablaze.
We will not sink.
We will not be set ablaze.
Instead we sink into your grace.
A furnace of your mercy.
Because you chose the despised and lowly.
You choose the despised and lowly.
I am despised.
I am lowly.
We will be the catalysts to reach out to the hurting.
We will embrace those who have been abandoned.
We will be catalysts.
We will embrace those who have been abandoned."

Catalysts by Hundredth
thanks, chadwick johnson.
BIT nation.

just a little rant.

Hi, I'm Ryan Lee Sears. I stink at studying for finals I have in 8 hours. I am terrible with words.. "words are hard," right, Dex? I have so many shortcomings and my heart is holey. I make the worst jokes ...that i laugh the hardest at, the previous joke for example. I like going to QT just to love on the clerks. I like going outside when it is entirely too cold, which I also love, to see full moons. I love little coffee shops. i love people who don't love Jesus. I love people who love Jesus. I attempt to love people who say they love Jesus, and probably do, but fight the wrong battles. The people who think they're serving the Kingdom by doing things God couldn't care less about.

Maybe that's a little harsh. Well, I'm offensive sometimes. Scratch that, I am offensive pretty often. but in reality, i have almost stopped caring. Almost. I am beyond over the majority of what i witness on a daily to weekly basis. I am beyond fed up with the majority of what I am surrounded by at the moment. Honestly, my dream is to move back to Portland. I wouldn't do that, but sometimes I wish i would. Here, all I see is people who cannot see past their own noses. Here, I see people who love Jesus, but can't figure out how to love people as Jesus loves people, much less loving them as they love themselves.

We hold ourselves to such lower standards than everyone else. 

We would crucify gays if we could. I wouldn't. I would probably give gays the right to marry if I were king for a day. Why? because they're people. have you ever stood face to face with a lesbian and admitted your stance on gay marriage, even worse, your belief in God's pure hatred for it? I have. Would you like to know what the hardest thing I have EEEEEEEEVVVER had to do in life was? THAT. Gay people are PEOPLE, and we justify judgment by slapping a "contend for the faith" bumper sticker on our vehicle of self-righteousness. We don't get it. We just don't get it.

If God turns them over to their sin (Romans 1), why wouldn't we do the same? We aren't God, so why not just obey God and love them. We can't change them, but we can walk them to the cross. Who cares what they say when they get there, that's between them and Jesus. I mean.. I care, but I care more about my obedience and worship than theirs. Sue me for it. Maybe I'm just the kid who went away to college and got all led astray and such, but, last i checked, my university is no different than my childhood.

Speaking of, I am slowly moving toward libertarianism. I feel like the first person who reads this might alert the media and have me shot. I am trapped by conservatism. consumed. Republicans run rampant around my small little life. You people are everywhere. Can I just say God doesn't care about our party affiliations, but i can promise you, if you're staunch in your political stance and it interferes with your disciple making, He cares.

Jesus said greatness in the Kingdom is measured by how obedient you are in keeping and teaching His commands (Matt. 5:19). What would it look like if we stopped arguing over Rick Perry being the best republican candidate and hating on Obama and started loving people as Christ loves people? What if we stopped trying to shove more guilt in the face of a rape victim for choosing abortion and started loving her through it? Why forfeit her life because she couldn't handle the shame?

Yes, I am the most outrageous person ever if you say so. Yes, I am a lunatic. Yes, I am too tired to be blogging. Or maybe I'm onto something. Let's just grow together through our disagreements and let Jesus speak for Himself. I love you, whoever you may be, and I'd like you to know my life, though sometimes I won't reflect it, has been radically transformed by the man called Christ. Pride was shattered three years ago. please, i am begging you to let God have a chance. You will thoroughly enjoy the outcome.

Believer, Christ and the Spirit are currently interceding for us. Persevere in the face of trial. I love you. Grace and peace be multiplied to you by our Lord Jesus Christ. Know that I long for the Kingdom of God to be advanced beyond all else, and, though I may not have the best delivery, my heart is genuine.

ps... let's get off this little proverbs 31 movement. gnosticism has no place in the Church. I love you.

Love's Highest Calling

All people participate in war. We war against ourselves, each other, “the clock,” and Methodists on our way to Sunday lunch. Moreover, no matter what people war with or against, why they war is not as dissimilar as one might assume. Humans are simply lovers of self. We are all, at birth, imprisoned by egocentrism, but as followers of Christ our “why” has changed. No longer do we fight for our own, or our nation’s, security, safety, or success; we struggle for the gospel of Jesus Christ to reach the depths of our souls and our world. Our allegiances, though some are pledged to the United States of America, are ultimately to the Lord of all creation, including the “land where my fathers died.” My aim is to call into question the contemporary response to the problem of war and present how Christians, with regenerate hearts and renewed minds, are to contribute.

History has revealed past warriors fought for at least one of three things: their king, their country, or their convictions. This fact holds no less truth for those whom uphold a biblical worldview in their pursuit of Christ. With our King and our citizenship in heaven, we must scripturally determine what warfare in which we are called to participate. If our God makes war in the Old Testament, would we not receive justification partaking in the same actions?

War connotes violence, and violence is rarely considered to be an attribute God exudes. Jesus spoke often of the violence He must undergo for the sake of God’s kingdom. Those who claimed to be His followers, though, expected something physical to take residence. The Jews hoped for a political savior to establish their nationalistic hopes, believing God promised to vindicate their cause as His chosen people. They sought an extraordinary physical status, yet Jesus “proclaimed the institution of a new way of life, not of a new government” (Yoder, 147). Their unmet expectations pushed them to extreme expressions of the violence He spoke of.

However, Jesus understood the Kingdom of Heaven not only suffers violence, it calls for it (Matt. 11:12). He encouraged His followers to consider the outrageous costs of discipleship. Jesus assured them of suffering they would undertake, but the sword He came to bring was not implying the physical establishment or defense of a kingdom (Matt. 10:34). Worldly violence attempts to make one’s self, ideology, or nation the center of creation. It is a refusal to settle for anything short of personal well-being. “Violence is for those who have lost their imagination;” it is the mark of multitudes which lack creativity and vision (Valentine, 19). Violence is simple, a destructive declaration of one’s power over another.

Believers are undoubtedly called to violence, but a violence of pursuit and not pain. We are not to inflict discomfort but to invite a Divine transformation. Heavenly violence is a refusal to settle for anything short of Divine fulfillment, complete and perfect. It is focused, like Heaven, on the Center of all creation, the Most High God. Violence is the expression of intrinsic depravity; love is the manifestation of imputed Divinity. Kingdom violence is a relentless pursuit of love.

“In the United States Christians are not known for peace or for love; they are known as Republicans” (Valentine, 22). We are not lacking in love; we are deficient in our understanding of Divine ordination. Our problem does not take residence in our absence of knowledge, but we suffer in our perspectives; our minds, the center of the Christian, remain untouched and actions unchanged. In combating for the justification of war by the keeping of the Constitution and God’s affirmation through Paul to do so (Romans 13:1-7), we claim these encouragements supersede those Heavenly demands of loving our neighbor by the protection of our neighbor.

We seek to justify our actions with the nature of God and in so doing claim God's nature is not solely to invest in His own glory. Yet, God is zealous and loyal to His own glory alone (Isaiah 43:6-7, 48:8-11, 49:3; Matt. 5:16; John 16:14, 17:24; Romans 9:22-23; 1 Cor. 10:31). This truth changes us, God's people, to become investors in His glory. God is about God, and we, in seeking to justify war, must consider if God receives glory in our foreign disputes. Do our violent actions magnify God Almighty? The answer, though our aim is global peace, clearly specifies the obvious choice of action is not hostility. God chose to glorify Himself through Israel and often used war as a means to do so.

However, Christians cannot validate their patriotism with Jewish heritage. Through Christ and His accomplishment on the cross, salvation is now extended far beyond domestic borders. The victory of the cross is unlimited and unstoppable. We are now warriors of reconciliation; love is our weaponry. “Our struggle is not against flesh and blood” and “the weapons of our warfare have divine power to destroy strongholds” (Eph. 6:12; 2 Cor. 10:4). God's glory no longer comes through natural war but supernatural quickening of the human spirit.

The only just war left to be fought is found within the pages of the Holy Scriptures testifying of the glory of Christ's return (2 Thes. 1:9-10). This battle, however, will be against the powers of hell and includes a distribution of wrath and judgment; He will destroy injustice indefinitely. Consequently, God does not desire for His people, no matter how noble the cause, to make war between nations; the Church is God’s vehicle for salvation not judgment.

Christians are called to uphold a biblical, thusly global, worldview. According to Jesus, our neighbors are not citizens with whom we share domestic borders, but those with whom we share a Creator. All people, present or future, American or Arabian, are to be loved. We do not choose whom we love; we submit to love whomever God commands. When we grasp an understanding of whom God fights for, we forfeit the desire to contest with nations and yearn to see them redeemed. Therefore, we are not called to defend our freedoms, but to fight viciously for the liberation of God’s creation by experiencing His love. We do not war against flesh, but hell and her angelic warriors; again, our weapons are not of this world “but have divine power to destroy strongholds.”

Furthermore, how can an imperfect people believing justification comes from God alone also trust their capacity to justify an unloving act on another person or nation? To declare a war just is to claim our endeavors are free from the constraints of sin and righteous in the eyes of God. Even in retaliation, the decision to wage war is, at best, a “compensatory sin, sin committed in order to secure a greater good” (Weaver, 62). Christian ends, namely peace, reached via unchristian means cannot be justified. Peacemakers (Matt. 5:9) are not peace seekers; they are ministers of reconciliation (2 Cor. 5:18). If we seek peace without proclaiming the gospel of Christ, we are instilling in humanity an idolatrous ideology. We must lose everything for the cross; our followship depends on it.

Therefore, in its purest form, pacifism is the response found in the cross. When one turns her eyes upon the King of glory, she must also behold the crucified Savior. Jesus underwent excessive, inhumane torment and suffering without uttering one statement of resistance. He offered no objections, but humbly obeyed the will of the Father while perfectly portraying His infinite love. Christian Pacifism is an idiom, for “agape, self-giving, nonresistant love,” is not for a sect of Christianity; it is the essence of Christ, ergo the center of the Christian life (Yoder, 147). War is merely a manifestation of disconnection from love’s source.

We are to be the expression of a person connected to charity’s ever flowing Spring. In the Old Testament, Israel was whom God used to display His own glory to the nations of the world. Since the Messiah, Jesus Christ, has come and presented God’s salvation to all nations, the Church, Jesus’ followers, are now God’s chosen people used for that same purpose. We are not merely connected to love; we are controlled by it (2 Cor. 5:14). Violence cannot be deemed an act of love, and God’s greatest commandment is for us to love Him and others as ourselves (Matt. 22:37-39). “Nonresistance is thus not a matter of legalism but of discipleship, not ‘thou shalt not’ but ‘as he is, so are we in this world’” (Yoder, 148).

Pacifism, with eyes set on the cross, is love at all costs; forfeiting violent acts committed in the name of nationalism is a small price to play to gain the utmost of God's glory in this life. It is adopted for obedience in our discipleship alone, “for pacifism as a way of life is premised on the nearness of the kingdom” (Cahill, 262). Followers of the Way in the first century were not after the liberties of their nation; they violently pursued the presence of God. Pacifism is not fighting for a warless existence; it is the pinnacle of Heavenly violence, a heart ablaze with love.

“Just war and pacifism are apples and oranges, not two kinds of apples” (Cahill, 261). By engaging in “just” warfare, we are committing warlessness gained by unloving methods to be the public good and not the gospel. Peace with God is the only avenue to lasting love and unity among men, and the gospel of Jesus Christ is the only approach to the Creator. The cross was not endured for domestic borders. Moreover, the cross destroys any previously established national allegiances for those whom sell all they have to invest in the Kingdom of God. Believers in the just war theory do not forsake pacifism; they forfeit their pursuit of the fullness of God’s presence (Matt. 6:33).

I do not see in Scripture the responsibility of the believer to defend one’s own nation but to submit to the state in obedience unto Christ (Luke 20:25). “The Christian’s responsibility for defeating evil is to resist the temptation to meet it on its own terms” (Yoder, 152). We disguise our disapproval of relinquished control and fear of losing comfort with an assumed command of responsibility. This does not appear to be Christian responsibility; I am beholding an epidemic of faithlessness.

Sadly, I do see a Church separated from the Scriptures and thusly Christ: a westernized Christian mindset which assumes responsibility is left in the hands of the sons and not the Father. Would a father leave his children to fend for themselves? How can we assume God has left His people to fight a physical battle to secure a supernatural inheritance established at the cross? If all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Jesus by the Father, all evil must bow down in service to His ultimate purposes. Scripture is laced with God fighting for His people. Therefore, any possible suffering or persecution the Church may undergo would essentially be edification, an inheritance of the kingdom of heaven (Matt. 5:10). Moreover, “the Church’s suffering, like the Master’s suffering, is the measure of the Church’s obedience to the self-giving love of God” (Yoder, 151).

Pacifism is not a way of life to produce peaceful existence; it is a response to grace alone by grace alone, desiring God’s glory and the furtherance of His kingdom beyond all else. This is the epitome of worship and obedience: a heart gripped by love responding to evil with good. An act of love gives a glimpse of the cross, thus moving an individual to take steps toward glory. Jesus said “whoever loses his life for My sake will find it” (Matt. 16:24). This is a beckoning neither for radicalism nor pacifism. This is total abandonment for the completion of God’s commission; this is a call for love.

hungry.

Revival is not a movement.

Revival is a Person, and His name is Jesus.


When we devote ourselves to laboring for more of our wonderful King, He will manifest Himself in us and through us. We cannot be restricted by our affections for this world (2 Cor. 6:12). We must desire more of Him. Come to us, Lord Jesus. Come to us.