Category Archives: Courage
Compendium (part eight)
Leadership Courage Series # 42
The seventh of nine leadership characteristics needed in the Church today: Disengage from an unreasonable faith in reasonableness.
Let me ask you: How reasonable was Jesus when confronting opposition, faithlessness, and cowardice?
Consider his arrest, in Gethsemane. Jesus is betrayed with a kiss by one of his closest confidants, an armed mob seizes him, binds him, and Peter hacks off the guy’s ear.
Jesus is in charge.
He’s not reasoning with his captors—he’s in the moment, training his disciples about spiritual warfare and teaching the mob about God’s sovereignty: they are powerlessness to oppose the Father’s will. Would you call this reasonable behavior, in light of Jesus’ circumstances? [Mt 26:46-57]
Thomas, I suppose, is a premier example of faithlessness. 
Hearing about Jesus’ appearance from the disciples, he’s unconvinced. A week later Jesus steps into the room and begins to soothe poor Thomas in his doubt and distress: “Sheesh, Tommy, I know how hard it must’ve been for you to believe these guys… here, let me give you a hug.” Reasonable, in light of the circumstances, right?
No, Jesus expected Thomas to believe. “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.” [Jn 20:25-28]
Maybe most unreasonable is the Lord’s response to cowardice. The term appears only once in the New Testament:“To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.” [Rev 21:6-8]
Scripture portrays the human race as engaged in a very real, very important, very high-stakes struggle between the forces of darkness — which conspire to enslave us in destruction unto death — and the power of God which offers to free us to “life that is truly life”.
Those who understood this were unreasonable women and men.
Moreover, God’s intent is that we grow into the way-of-being of God’s Son. To this end, God is continually pressing us beyond the limits of what we know, what we can do, and what we can control. So that, like his Son, we’ll trust God more and more confidently, immediately, and unwaveringly.
Reasonable?
Sure.
If you’re trying to make Christians to be people who live like Christ.
Compendium (part four)
Leadership Courage Series # 38
We’re reviewing nine traits essential to lead effectively in a Church caught in a culture of cowardice. Three: Promote healthy differentiation within the church or system you lead.
Healthy differentiation means to take full responsibility for your own being and destiny. Pastor, this means that you will discard the ministerial malpractice of taking responsibility for others.
You and your members can’t both be responsible for their well-being and destiny.
If you take responsibility for them, they won’t. Soon, you begin to over-function. Your over-functioning undermines the impulse toward initiative of your people. Edwin Friedman writes: “When one over-functions in another’s space, the existential reality is [that] it can cause another’s being to disintegrate.”
Here’s a shock: Every over-functioner does it for himself. Over-functioning is selfishness. Self-indulgent. Self-serving.
Sure, you’re exhausting yourself in the service of all those around you. The lie you believe is that you do it for them. Peel back the onion and you’ll find that you prefer it this way. You love the control, the self-satisfaction, the esteem, maybe the sense of superiority it provides you.
Trust me. I know.
When you take responsibility for your congregation’s emotional being and destiny, you assume a role Jesus didn’t. Jesus lived with his disciples as if they were responsible before God for their own being and destiny. The storm at sea [Lk 8], healing the epileptic [Mk 9], Peter walking on water [Mt 14], feeding the multitude [Jn 6].
Jesus saw challenges, not as threats from which to shelter his people, but as opportunities for growth to maturity.
Second, a well-differentiated person knows who she is and who she’s not. She doesn’t look to her career, her friends, or her children – important as they are – to determine her value, identity, or well-being. The opinions, expectations, and preferences of others don’t define her.
She is clear. Not arrogant. Confident in who God has made her to be, and clear about the difference she gets to make with her life.
As pastor, you’re a champion of your people’s secure identity. You get to champion them to stand in well-differentiated maturity.
The best way is to be with them as if they are…
Compendium (part three)
Leadership Courage Series # 37
We’re making a brief, final lap through nine traits called for from pastors and influencers in the Church in North America. The second is: Take full responsibility for your own emotional being and destiny.
Pastor, more than you know, you are the model of what maturity in Christ is. Regardless of your age, the congregation looks to you to see how to “walk as Jesus walked”. [I Jn 2:6]
Paul urges Timothy to “set an example for the believers in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity…so that everyone may see your progress.” [I Tim 4:12b, 15b] Notice that only one of these has to do with the sermons you devote all those hours to, each week.
How you live is far more influential than what you teach. That’s why, when you blow your stack one time with a parishioner, it eclipses decades of faithfulness in the pulpit.
Doesn’t it?
In a Church culture teeming with cowardice, you model spiritual and emotional maturity. So, how completely do you take responsibility for your emotional well-being?
These are dispiriting days for many ministers. Once-vibrant congregations are aging. Dying. 
Young adults stay away en masse. Social and political winds are blowing cold and hard in the face of the evangelical church. Clergy are viewed with disdain, churches with suspicion, denominations with contempt. Giving’s dried up, budgets slashed, staffs cut. And there’s no turn-around in sight.
How completely have you taken responsibility for your emotional well-being?
Were you more confident when there were 20 more cars in the parking lot?
More sure of God’s favor when giving was $2,000 a week more?
Are you grumpier, more stressed, less gracious now than six years ago?
What meaning have you attached to your circumstances that you’re not unaware of?
Just yesterday a pastor shared a string of difficulties he’s been in. An insubordinate staff member, a church split, and a financial decline. He wondered if pastors have a “shelf life”. Maybe his has expired? The meaning Mike attached to these challenges was that they somehow indicated that God was “done” with him at his church.
What assumptions are you holding as if they were true?
Perhaps you see yourself as victim to a poor economy, squabbling elders, resistant congregation, or denominational freefall. Does your emotional state bound from pole to pole based on Sunday’s headcount, the offering, or whether so-and-so is leaving or staying at your church?
When my world is spinning, here’s a practice that works. First, I remind myself that God was not caught off-guard by the troubles that snuck up on me.
Next, I ask myself: “Kirk, does God have you?” “Are you sure?” And, “Does God have … 
[your child, your finances, your congregation]?” I ground myself in the truth that God has me, you, and it all under control. Not my control. God’s.
We’re held.
We’re loved.
We’re secure.
We’re good.
Then, I consider my destiny. I am bound for heaven. That is sure. As long as I’m pursuing Christ, there’s no doubt. So, I check myself… repent where needed… turn toward Christ and follow all-in.
Simple.
Effective.
Important.
From a place of security in Christ, you can lead. Without it, you’ve got no shot.
Compendium (part one)
Leadership Courage Series # 35
This series on Leadership Courage began more than a year ago. Inspired by Edwin Friedman’s A Failure of Nerve, I set out to do two things. First, to establish the context: the Church in North America is, as they say in the South, “eat up” with anxiety.
Chronically anxious, the Church exhibits a culture of cowardice in hundreds of ways.
Unwilling to stand with clarity and self-differentiation, the Church has surrendered much of what makes Christianity distinctive.
And for what?
For the chance to have a seat at the table with the cultural elites. Trouble is, those at the table tolerate our being there only as long as we toe the party line. In other words, the Church must surrender what makes Christianity Christian. And, have you noticed, the cultural progressives keep moving the “line”.
Farther and farther from Christian orthodoxy.
And, as they do, the Church keeps surrendering truth so it can stay at the “table”. What some fail to see is that as the Church prostitutes herself in this way, the greater culture, more and more, views us with disdain, not esteem.
Our chair’s been moved to the children’s table… and we don’t even seem to mind.
Compromised.
Capitulated.
Silenced.
Adrift of our biblical moorings we float aimlessly downstream along with the culture… a culture that’s destroying itself with self-indulgence.
Second, my aim is to invite you to embrace the kinds of leadership that are most necessary for the Church, in this condition, in this hour.
Again, Friedman’s genius has been my guide.
Nine leadership distinctives were offered. In a season of immense challenge, of unprecedented pace of change, and of undeniable urgency for Christian ministers to step into the leadership void, nine essential leadership traits will define those who will lead the Church out of its decades-long regression.
Here they are:
One: Courageous leadership is not about skill, technique, or knowledge. It is, most of all, about the presence of the leader as he or she moves through life.
Christian ministry is people development.
We are called to “equip God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may … become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.” [Eph 4:12-13]
That Christian leaders misunderstand the primacy of developing mature disciples may help explain why the Church is impregnated with immaturity in this hour.
Our job, as Christians, is to make mature disciples of Jesus. Not to run programs that educate and entertain receptive religious folks.
Do you live to champion people into Christ-likeness?
So they live like Jesus would be living if Jesus were living in their place.
The most important person for you to champion to maturity in Christ is you.
Go First! (part six)
Leadership Courage Series # 34
Last time, I used the phrase “do what’s right because it’s right, whether it works or not.” I learned this from a friend, who says he learned it from the Lord. His wife had lost both her parents to cancer. One after the other. Suddenly. Unexpectedly.
The impact was devastating. She was always the strong one for her parents and siblings. Amazing everyone, she stood like Gibraltar: an emotional and spiritual fortress in a storm of incalculable ferocity.
But, after the second funeral her scaffolding rocked, then teetered, and collapsed. When it did, my friend found himself in court-ordered isolation.
Banished from his home, his wife, and his children.
With tears in his eyes, Tom promised me that he’d do what was right for his wife, because it was right, whether it “worked” or not.
Whether he’d ever be able to move home. Ever hold his wife again. Ever have a meal at with his children at their table.
Leaders go first.
Which means they do GO. Leaders move into the unknown. They realize they cannot afford to wait until there’s no risk left. Guided by their values and attending to their functioning moral compass, they move.
This is what Tom chose to do. To respond tenderly, mercifully, patiently, lovingly, forgivingly, kindly. While facing a great threat to his and his family’s future. There was no MapQuest with navigation instructions. No one he knew had faced something like this. Nothing about it made sense.
It didn’t have to.
His commitment was to do right by his wife.
Courageous leaders have learned to govern themselves, to manage their emotional reactivity, to restrain their impulsivity. Like, the impulse for revenge. To employ terrorist tactics. Or zero-sum strategies. And the ever-present impulse to resist another’s resistance.
Instead, she surrenders herself to integrity. Her integrity. And, she entrusts herself to God, being obedient, as best she can, to what she knows to be right.
Right?
A Christian leader cannot afford to be capricious, impetuous, or mercurial. If they are, those they lead cannot follow. And, leaders are only leaders when people follow them.
It’s incumbent upon leaders in the Church to do what we know to be right. Because, when we don’t, we compromise ourselves. When you compromise your own integrity, you commit moral suicide.
When you fail to do what you know to be right, you immediately lose esteem for yourself. The antidote to low self-esteem is not the empty pumping up of those who live without integrity. It is to live a life that you yourself esteem. That you respect. To quote my friend Tom, you do what’s right.
One tragedy of Christian leadership in our day is that far too many suffer from this malady. Collapsing on what they know to be right, the erosion of esteem begins its inexorable advance.
Confidence is undermined.
One collapse breeds another.
Compromised, the leader looks outside to determine direction. Like the politician taking cues from polling data, she’s straining to sense the political winds rather than standing on the moral certitude of doing what’s right.
The question is no longer “what’s right?” but “what’ll work?” And, adrift of one’s ethical moorings, the tragedies mount up.
Don’t they?
And, this is what passes for leadership in a culture of cowardice.
What if the Church in our nation determined to do what we know to be right, simply because it is right? What if honor and integrity supplanted expediency and political advantage?
How might we then live?
How might our society respond?
Go First! (part five)
Leadership Courage Series # 33
As with much of this Leadership Courage Series, I’m indebted to Edwin Friedman’s excellent book A Failure of Nerve for this ninth and final leadership trait: Go first!
Friedman says “To be a leader, one must both have and embody a vision of where one wants to go. It is not a matter of knowing or believing one is right; it is a matter of taking the first step.”
Leaders go first.
They just do.
And when they don’t, they fail to lead.
You may be an educator, an encourager, a chaplain, an historian, a counselor, an entertainer, a soother, or a caretaker, but you are not a leader. And, leadership is essential for the Church to be the Church.
If you watched the HBO miniseries The Pacific you’ve seen the difference. One episode features the grizzly beach landing by US Marines on Peleliu. 
Before the landing craft can unload their fresh batch of rookie soldiers they come under devastating fire. Soldiers are hit while still on the craft. Deafening planes strafe just overhead, bombs falling.
Bedlam.
Dizzying. Disorienting. Soldiers reaching the beach freeze in fear as mortars and bullets take down their companions. The wounded scream, some writhing, others whimpering.
Then, over the din of the guns and the bombs you hear just a few voices. They are clear, confident, urgent voices.
Officers giving directions.
Compared to the rookies, they seem almost unconcerned about their own safety. Their focus is not dodging bullets or ducking when a bomb explodes. Their focus is the mission. They urge their marines to get up and move—in the face of fear. “You want to live? Get off the beach and move!”
Leaders lead by going first.
Politicians in our day are known to modify their message and methods based on polling data. Seems to me, their concern is not “what’s right?” but “what’ll work?” This is what passes for leadership in a culture of cowardice. Friedman notes that American society has become obsessed with safety. Our culture has become chronically anxious. We have lost our appetite for adventure.
Leadership, in a context like this, is in scant supply.
Recently, the leadership of a church in Virginia publicly apologized for mishandling sexual abuses perpetrated by a youth minister.
Their attorneys and insurance carrier went nuts. Admit to anything and you open yourself to lawsuits… maybe dozens.
It was a major national news story particularly because the leaders of that church did lead—with integrity. They did what was right because it was right, whether it worked or not.
They led.
Or, as Friedman says: They took the first step.
Will you?
Go First! (part four)
Leadership Courage Series # 32
In the home stretch of this Series, we’re considering the ninth characteristic of those who would lead well in a culture overrun with cowardice. Early in this series we examined why comfort-craving, security-seeking, spiritless stagnation is common to the Church. Sad, when you consider how we behaved in the Book of Acts.
Isn’t it?
Christ gave the apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers to equip the saints for the work of their ministry. [Eph 4:11-16] Strange, though, for several generations there’s been almost no evidence of the first three of these essential graces in the North American Church. One quality of “going first” is to restore these missing graces in every church.
What’s the impact on the Church is when the evangelistic impetus is in scant supply?
Seriously, look around…
Because of the preponderance of the teaching grace, you get a dysfunctional over-emphasis on teaching as the means of evangelism.
See, when you keep trying to teach those who are not postured to learn you create an experience in those you’re with. That experience is irritation, annoyance, condescension, and frustration.
And, this we do in the name of Jesus.
The second thing you get is a dearth of actual “evangels”.
At the heart of “evangelism” is “angel”.
An angel is a messenger.
An “ev-angel” is a messenger of good.
And a message is “good” when those who receive it define it that way.
Think about it. What was the angels’ message at the first advent? “Turn or burn”? “Close this clinic”? “Vote for my candidate”?
“Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today … a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah…Glory to God … and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.” [Lk 2:11-14] However that message might be interpreted today, it meant something really good to the Hebrew people enslaved by Roman oppression in that hour.
Our society thinks it has heard our “evangel” and they’ve judged it as anything but “good news”.
They think they’ve heard enough from us. They’ve decided we are rigid, judgmental, hypocritical bigots who oppose many of the darlings of what is considered to be progressive, enlightened culture. And, since we’ve reduced Christian ministry to explanation and oration, we keep trying to teach them the right way to think, believe, and act.
Did Jesus do it this way?
Consider the Campaign of Nain, recorded in Luke 7:11-17. Jesus approaches the town, sees a funeral procession, a widow weeping over the death of her child, and a lot of people in despair.
What does he do?
As he sizes up the situation, his heart goes out to her. He walks up, touches the casket, raises the boy to life, and hands him to his mother.
That’s it!
No altar call.
No self-promotion.
No commercial about Sunday’s meetings on Solomon’s Colonnade.
He doesn’t tell them to do anything.
Jesus brings the Kingdom and people are blessed. Here, he is a messenger of good.
And they all get it.
Their conclusion: “God has come to help his people.”
Is that what they conclude when you and I come to town?
The Unreasonableness of Being Reasonable (part four)
Leadership Courage Series # 28
Within a larger conversation concerning courageous leadership we’ve been examining the outworking of placing “an unreasonable faith in reasonableness” – a central tenet of much of post-Enlightenment Christendom in the West. I am indebted to Edwin Freidman’s A Failure on Nerve for illuminating this characteristic of the anxious, shallow, quick-fix orientation to leadership.
This kind of leadership is ruining the Church in North America in our time.
We’ve pointed out that when you preach what you don’t practice, the dissonance repels people – not just from your sanctuary – but from Christianity and Christ. The implications for a society are deeply profound and can infect it for generations.
See, Christianity is nothing if not a call to courage. When her leaders bow before the idol of reasonableness, a dry, humdrum philosophical religion results.
And, men leave the church in droves.
Or haven’t you noticed?
I subscribe to an excellent book reading service called Leader’s Book Summaries [www.StudyLeadership.com]. I highly recommend it. In a recent summary of David Murrow’s Why Men Hate Going to Church I learned that only one third of church attendees are men—and most of them are over 50. It’s almost impossible to find adults – of either gender — under age 30 in church.
How come?
Consider these two lists of values: First, the pink list: Love, communication, beauty, relationships, support, help, nurture, feelings, sharing, harmony, community, and cooperation.
And, the green list: Competence, power, efficiency, achievement, skills, results, accomplishment, technology, goals, success, and competition.
Which list of values are most consistent with the culture that predominates the North American Church today?
The two lists come from John Gray’s Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus and distinguish culturally “masculine” from “feminine” values.
What do you see?
In our commitment to be reasonable, among other major shifts, the Church in the west has been emasculated. Neutered. No. It’s been feminized.
The Leaders Book Summary points out that numerous studies reveal “there is widespread agreement among both the religious and the secular that to be a Christian is to embrace feminine values.”
Consider this: those most absent from church (men and young adults) value challenge over security. Again, taken from the Summary, the key values of this missing population include adventure, risk, daring, independence, variety, and reward.
Women and seniors are more likely to embrace safety, stability, harmony, predictability, comfort, support, and tradition as core values.
Since values are revealed in behavior, not belief systems, what does your lifestyle reveal, pastor?
When the time has come to take a courageous stand, what does your behavior reveal?
- When the opportunity came to stand up to that manipulative, obstructionist power-wielding elder, what did you do?
- When you thought to lead your parish out into the city to serve and love and impact those outside your tight-knit congregation – and push-back came, as it always does – did you lead courageously or cave-in under pressure?
- When a clear biblical injunction has become as unpopular in your denomination as in the culture at large, have you censored your own voice?
- When the Holy Spirit stirred you to put your hand to the plow in pursuit of some great, challenging work for God’s glory, did the fearful complaints of the cowards prevail in the end?
As leaders, we get to champion our people to become who they always wanted to be, by taking them where they never wanted to go.
And, since life is always lived from now on, your past behavior is no predictor of the greatness you’ll accomplish before you breathe your last.
So, before you see Him face to face, what great, rewarding, daring adventure will you and your people give yourselves to?
What’ll it be?
You get to choose.
The Unreasonableness of Being Reasonable (part three)
Leadership Courage Series # 27
Pastor, who you are is more important than anything you say.
Who you are is more important than everything you say!
This Leadership Courage Series is a call to the courageous, risky life leaders lived in the Church of the New Testament. It stands in glaring contrast to the lifestyle of the professional clergy that, more often than not, resembles tenured professors at our nation’s universities…without the taxpayer-funded salary package.
This is primarily troubling because you are not primarily an educator… you are a role model.
Just like Timothy, Paul, Priscilla & Aquila, Barnabas, John, and Stephen.
Yes, just like them.
If not you, then who?
Who else is to model the vibrant, sold-out Christian life than you, your elders, and leaders?
Those who write books, like those who traverse the Christian speaking circuit, don’t provide the regular proximity and access that you, as shepherd of a local congregation, do– unless you hide in your study and only emerge when it’s time to preach or run a meeting.
Think about those words: proximity and access.
If the lyrics and music of your preaching and your life don’t align, those words will strike fear in you.
If, however, you’ve raised your way-of-living to match your preaching or lowered your preaching to that which you actually live, those words will resonate with your heart right now.
See, when your life is “Chamberlainian” [see last week’s blog], the dissonance between it and the biblical message undercuts your effectiveness as a leader of God’s women and men.
And, when your living is “Churchillian”, the bravery to which you call your congregation is the same as the courage you routinely summon to bring God’s reign to the chaos and disorder that has besieged your community.
One of my all-time favorite preachers is Mike Erre. Mike’s always been an amazing Bible expositor and communicator. Biblically-sound. Funny. Profound. Engaging. Illuminating. Winsome.
In recent years, a medical crisis has befallen someone very dear to Mike and Justina. A crisis from which there’s no recovery. None.
Mike’s preaching has gained gravitas. Like Jesus had, when the scholars marveled at his understanding [Lk 2:47] and when demons quaked in his presence [Mk 5:7].
You can sense it when you’re around Mike. This man knows what it is to follow Jesus no matter what.
When you live in harmony with the Biblical message, you have gravitas.
Weight.
Substance.
Authenticity.
So does your preaching.
When you don’t, your sermons are hollow. And that hollowness drives folks away.
Some of the first to go are the true believers. The uncompromising. The bold. The spirited. The gutsy. Those who read their Bibles and believe that it says what it says. That it means what it means.
The people who long for authenticity. Not theory. They want to associate with a faith community that will live this stuff – Jesus’ stuff – like it’s real. Because it is.
It is.
Isn’t it?
The Unreasonableness of Being Reasonable (part two)
Leadership Courage Series # 26
Edwin Friedman in his stellar work A Failure of Nerve challenges his readers to “disengage from an unreasonable faith in reasonableness.” It seems that the Church in North America is reasonable if it is anything, and that reasonableness has got us stuck.
“Syncretism” is what scholars call it.
I call it a blight … and a foundation to the culture of cowardice that’s commonplace in the Church today. One way to regain our verve and our nerve, it to take an axe to the roots of a commitment to being reasonable.
Trouble is, there’s comfort in reasonableness. There’s a degree of security there, too. The moderation it provokes can masquerade as wisdom after you’ve had any number of flame-outs when taking bold steps of faith.
I was discipled as a new Christian in a church system that regularly twisted scripture and abused power … scarring people both emotionally and spiritually. Annie and I invested ourselves without reservation in a church plant that imploded after an extra-marital affair. Years ago we gave what for us was a breathtaking sum of money for a church building campaign, and later learned that a person on the inside had misappropriated tens of thousands from that campaign.
Sad.
If you’ve been around the Church for any time, such scandals are nothing new. How the perpetrators can sleep at night remains a mystery to me. What is not mysterious is the pressure these setbacks have exerted on my enthusiasm to live “all-in” for Christ. It’s as if powerful spiritual forces conspire to soften and weaken my commitment to live boldly for Christ.
They do.
A “voice of reason” resonates inside my head coaxing me to be moderate. One prevailing Christian paradigm suggests that we hold our faith as we would a country club membership or allegiance to a political party: one of many important commitments. Important, sure, but not essential.
Nothing to lose your head over.
Yet, in the scriptures, moderation in living for Christ is never esteemed.
Who was moderate?
Peter in Caiaphas’ courtyard?
Thomas, before he believed?
Judas Iscariot?
Jesus is unambiguous: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.” [Lk 9:23]
Clear as a bell.
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other…” [Lk 16:13]
As a leader, who you are is more important than anything you say.
Who you are is more important than everything you say.
Ministers, often times, are master pulpiteers.
Skilled rhetoricians.
Gifted orators.
Big talkers.
But talk that’s not backed by a life has a hollow ring. And that hollowness drives people away… away from church… away from the Church.
When Winston Churchill addressed the Harrow School in late October 1941 his speech included these most famous words: “Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never–in nothing, great or small, large or petty–never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
His words, then as now, ring true.
Why?
Because he didn’t give in.
Neville Chamberlain, the famous appeaser, could not have made that speech. If he had, it would never have been remembered.
The words didn’t match his life.
Do yours?
