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I'm going to take this passage before us and actually share a few things about being a father that you see through the Apostle Paul's relationship with Titus. And as I was looking at this passage just last night, I was going through the passage again, my notes and all, I began to see some things that I think are, you know, they're going to be casually mentioned. I didn't put them in my notes, but there are things that apply to us as fathers. We'll see this in a moment. So let's begin reading here in 2 Corinthians chapter 8. We're going to look at verses 16 through 24. And so I'll begin reading at verse 16 and read to the conclusion of the chapter and we'll get into our study. 2 Corinthians chapter 8, beginning at verse 16, Paul writes, But thanks be to God who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus, for he not only accepted the exhortation, but being more diligent, he went to you of his own accord. And we have sent with him the brother whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches. And not only that, but who was also chosen by the churches to travel with us with this gift, which is administered by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show your ready mind, avoiding this, that anyone should blame us in this lavish gift which is administered by us, providing honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men. And we have sent with them our brother whom we have often proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent because of the great confidence which we have in you. If anyone inquires about Titus, he's my partner and fellow worker concerning you, or if our brethren are inquired about, they are messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ, therefore show to them and before the churches the proof of your love and of our boasting on your behalf. So Paul has been exhorting, as you know the context of this, let me reiterate, remind you of some things. Paul has been exhorting the church to make good on their promise to help the poor. The church had made a commitment to send relief to those who were poor in the church in Jerusalem. Paul was exhorting them to make good on the promise that they had made to send that gift. Now as he had already said, they originally had volunteered to give help over a year before, or at least close to a year. Though they had made the promise, they were yet to fulfill it. And so Paul in verses 10 and 11 had said that they had the desire, but now it was time for them to keep their promise. Now as we go through this in verse 20, I want you to notice something because this is going to be something important to see. Paul tells us that their gift is going to be generous. He expects the gift that they're sending to be generous. He called it lavish. That word lavish there means abundant or exceedingly generous. They had had almost a year to prepare, so Paul anticipated a large amount of money to be sent. He had been speaking and concerning the churches in Macedonia, and he had used them as an example because the Macedonian churches had suffered affliction and were experiencing deep poverty, but he had pointed out that they were very generous. And so he had used this information to encourage the Corinthians that they might also respond generously. So if the Macedonians had been generous, it makes sense that the Corinthians would also be. So seeing that he anticipated a large monetary gift, plans had to be made in order for it to be delivered. The distance between the two cities from Corinth to Jerusalem, rather, the distance between the two cities is around 7 to 800 miles. It would take several days for that money to arrive. It could sometimes be dangerous as well as fact that it was a great sum of money. And so because Paul knew that the love of money was a root of all kinds of evil, and he knew that more than one professing believer had given in to greed, he wanted to safeguard it. He wanted to make sure that the money that was pledged to be sent would be safeguarded in all because he knows that money can actually draw people, it can entice people, the greed within us can do so. And he would have remembered one of Jesus' former apostles by the name of Judas who had the problem with greed. Remember in John chapter 12 verses 5 and 6 how Judas asked, why was this fragrant oil not sold for 300 denarii and given to the poor? And John says this, he said not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief. He had the money box and he used to take what was put in it. So Paul knew that the offering being taken to Jerusalem had to be safeguarded because a large sum of money could be tempting. And those who carried and delivered the money needed to have impeccable character. As an apostle, as a spiritual leader, Paul was careful to do things properly. He already made it clear that he wanted the ministry, his ministry to be beyond accusation. Remember in chapter 6 verse 3 of 2 Corinthians how he had said, we give no offense in anything that our ministry may not be blamed? Well because of this he appointed qualified men to handle the transportation of the gift. And he begins with verse 16, he begins with Titus, someone that they already know. They're already familiar with him. I'll share a couple of things about him as I introduce this teaching today. When you look at Titus in the Bible, Titus came to faith in Jesus Christ through the ministry of the apostle Paul. This chapter 1 in verse 4 opens with the words to Titus my own son after the common faith. Now I mentioned to you that in the writings of Paul there are only two people that he ever calls his own son or genuine son. One was Titus, the other was a young man named Timothy. And so he called him his own son, his son in the faith because Titus had come to faith through him, came to faith in Christ through his own ministry. When you look at Titus you see that he isn't a Jew. You'll see that Titus actually was a Gentile that's made clear in Galatians chapter 2 verse 3. Eventually as he was maturing as a believer he became a pastor and he actually pastored a church in the island of Crete. Now in this particular letter Paul mentioned Titus several times. Titus had gone to Corinth, had met them, even had grown to love them. In 2 Corinthians 7.13 that verse tells us that the Corinthians had refreshed his spirit. So he's speaking of Titus, Titus has a relationship with these people in Corinth and Paul is referring to those things. Now notice in verse 16 how he says, thanks be to God who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus. Same earnest care. The word earnest means to give all diligence in accomplishing, promoting or striving after anything. This earnest care is the same kind that Paul received for the Corinthians. And this kind of earnest concern for ministering to people comes from the Lord. It's more than human empathy, it's more than human compassion, it's more than simply liking people. He's speaking concerning this as from God. This is the kind of care that Paul had and this is the kind of heart that Titus has. And this comes from the Lord. The kind of care that Titus had was a spiritual care, a concern for people, a concern for people to know the Lord Jesus Christ. It was a concern for people to have a relationship with God and Paul said that Titus had the same earnest care as he had because Paul had that desire and so did Titus. So Paul wanted everybody to know the Lord and it would appear that Titus had the same kind of heart. He wasn't a rival seeking for attention. He wasn't attempting to draw people to himself. He wasn't placing himself above Paul. He wasn't fighting to become well known. Instead, he had the same earnest care that Paul had for the Corinthians. The Bible makes it very clear. Titus loved the church and because he loved the church he could be trusted. He could be trusted by Paul to carry this money, but he also could be trusted by the body of Christ because it was God to put the same earnest care for them in his heart. Again that love for them wasn't self generated. It was a love that God put in his heart. Now as their spiritual father, Paul loved them and he rejoiced to know that Titus did too, a father, the love of a father. As I was going through this, it came to mind that there are certain things that you see in Paul that gives us an insight into the love of a father. Paul was protective for them. Remember in 1 Corinthians in chapter 4 in verse 15, remember how there Paul said, though you may have 10,000 teachers, yet you have but one father. I begot you in the gospel. Paul had a love for the Corinthian church, the kind of love that a father has for his own children and as a father he had a protective concern for them. Every father has a protective concern, every genuine father I should say has or should have a protective love for their children. It's something that we should have for those that God has gifted us with, our babies. And we're protective in many ways and Paul was very protective. He did not want anyone taking advantage of them. In chapter 11 of 2 Corinthians verse 2 he says to them, the church, I'm jealous for you with a godly jealousy, I promised you to one husband to Christ so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him. We have that protective interest, that protective love. The false teachers were entering into Corinth and were beginning to undermine the relationship Paul had with these people and these false teachers were saying things about him making various charges against him that he has to actually respond to through the entire book. All of these different charges of how he didn't love them, how he didn't care for them, how he wasn't honest with them, how he wasn't good looking. In the whole nine yards, I mean this is a man who was in love with the church that wasn't in love with him. And yet he still had a love for these people, yet he had a love for the Corinthians and his concern was to protect them because false teachers were creeping in, were undermining the work of God in them and any true pastor and every true father wants to make sure that the children are taught properly, kept safe in the things of the Lord because that's our responsibility. I've told my kids in the past, I've said to them it matters not to me if you become real rich in life, if you do great, give me some, but if you don't, doesn't matter to me because what I want from you isn't money. What I want from you is something deeper. What I want for you is to know the Lord and not be deceived by false teachers. Every father understands that. That's why I gave my children devotions every morning. That's why I taught them to pray when they were in a high chair. That's why I would hold a little hand when they were a year old sitting in a high chair just before they ate. That's why I'd hold their little wrist, I'd loosely hold their wrist and I'd say we're going to thank Jesus and I'd say a very simple prayer. I'd say thank you Jesus for this food, amen. I began that when they were infants, when they were babies. I prayed for them when they were in the crib. I prayed for them when they were in the womb. I pray for them now because that's what fathers do. We protect them. We give them the word of God. We love them. We lay our lives down for them because they're their fathers. Forgive me, I get emotional, I shouldn't, ah who cares. But I'm pouring my heart out about this with you. I don't care if my children are rich, I hope that they're well off, I don't want them borrowing money from me. But I don't need what is theirs. I need them and there's a difference. Every father knows that. Every father's heart beats for the welfare of their children.  And what Paul is doing, and you may not know it, is when he's saying, you know, though you may have 10,000 teachers, and yes, every person in this room has one teacher after another telling you what to believe and think about God. Everyone who's a believer has somebody influencing you about what you should think about God. All of you do. We all do. We all talk to somebody after a church service. And many times there have been, after church services, there'll be people saying, well I don't agree with that and I don't agree with this and there's an influence going on and sometimes it's simply because the person who doesn't agree isn't doing what they're supposed to do. Oh, I don't agree with that. I remember a lady in our fellowship who wrote me a letter many years ago now and she said, Pastor David, you wouldn't know me. I gave my heart to the Lord in your church a few weeks ago. I wanted to tell you that I came to a Wednesday night Bible study and you were teaching through Corinthians and you shared concerning the sin of homosexuality. And she says, I was a lesbian and I was with my partner in church and I was listening to your Bible study and I went home with her because they were living together. She says, and I went home with her and when I went home with her, we began to talk about, we heard that night. And my partner said to me, oh, that's his opinion. That's just what he believes. She says, but I told her, no, that's what the Bible says. He said exactly what it says and she said, that means that what the Bible says that I'm doing is wrong.  And so she wrote me a couple, two, three weeks after she'd come to that Bible study, she said, I want you to know I gave my heart to Jesus Christ. I've moved out from my relationship with this woman and I'm going to follow Jesus Christ. See, that's what I'm here to do is to share the truth with people to set them free. That's what you do. And but there's always people say, oh, no, that's just his opinion. That's just what he thinks. And that's why pastors can be protective. I'm jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I don't want your minds to be corrupted by falsity because people's opinions are not the same with what Scripture says inspired by the Spirit of God. And that's how Paul was. And that's what fathers do. That's why you wash your children with the water of the Word. That's why we give them devotions because when they sin, which they do, when they sin, they'll be sinning against what they know is true. It's one thing for me to sin in ignorance. It's another thing for me to sin against the truth. And so what I tried to do with my children is I tried to give them the Word of God so that they would have a foundation of what is right, what is wrong. This is what we ought to do. These are the things God would have for us. That's why I did that. Did I expect to raise perfect children? Of course not. They're like their mom. No, of course not. I wish they were. But no, they've got sin natures. And that's that that's what a father's love is. And and Paul was a father in the faith to tide us. He said he's a genuine guy. He's a real follower of Christ. He is my son in the faith and he's commending him. But as a father, he speaks concerning him in that way. And Paul is blessed to have that. Now it's interesting to note and I want you to see this in verse 16. Again, he says God puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus. The same earnest care is the love that Paul had. He put the same kind of love I have. He said for you, he put that same kind of love into the heart of Titus. It's the same kind of love. And this kind of love for the church seems to be rare today, even in the ministry. It can be difficult to find assistance that have this kind of love for the sheep. But when you read your Bible, you'll see that Paul was blessed to have at least two sons like this. Because in Philippians chapter two, verses 19 through 22, Paul said, I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, that I also may be encouraged when I know your state. For I have no one like minded who will sincerely care for your state. For all seek their own, not the things which are of Christ Jesus. But you know his proven character that as a son with his father, he served with me in the gospel. Titus had the same earnest love in his heart for them as Paul did. Paul laid up for the children. Fathers are supposed to lay up for the children. If you look at chapter 12 for a second, verse 14, Paul says, now for the third time, I am ready to come to you and I will not be a, I will not be burdensome to you. For I do not seek yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. I'm not asking you to care for me. As a father, I want to care for you. My children know that about me. If I take one of my children out on occasion, we do not often. But if I take one of my children out for a breakfast or for lunch or a dinner, they can't pay for my food. I won't allow it. I don't allow it. And they're blessed in that and I'm ripped off. So I take them to McDonald's and cheaper places. I just have never been comfortable with them doing that. The father ought to lay up for the children, not the children for the father. I ought to take care of them. I don't ask them to take care of me. And that's how I am with my kids. You know, as long as dad's with you, I'll take care of you. Even if you're in your 40s and you've got several kids of your own already, I'll still take care of you. Why? Because that's what fathers do. We care for our children. We love them. We take care of them. And God put that earnest care in the heart of Titus, the same kind that Paul had for him. And it is very hard to find people who will love the sheep just because. I'll be honest with you, and this may not sound the way it should. Second service, I may not say it or make them come out better. But sometimes sheep can be very difficult. Sometimes the sheep in the body of Christ, you know, they're not scary, but they do have teeth. And every once in a while, they take a bite. And they can hurt. And they can injure. And sometimes they take great pleasure in that. How do you remain loving people who can be so mean? How? It's God who puts that love in your heart. It's the Lord who puts that love in your heart. Raising your children, those of you who are parents, know that there are seasons, perhaps, in your children's life that they didn't like you very much. And sometimes you didn't like them very much. Let's face it. You may say, I love you, but man, I don't like you. And there were times that I would have a friction with my own children where I would think, man, I better go to the office and stay there. I'll put a bed in the office. I don't want to come home. Marie, you take care of them. There are times that you could get so frustrated with them. And they're difficult, and kids can be. Well, so can the church be. And if God doesn't put that love in your heart for them, that I will not give up on you love. I will not quit on you love, well, that's the kind of love that comes from God. That's the kind of love that's in a pastor that will hold fast, even when the people are very difficult, even when the people can be very mean. It takes that kind of love to pastor a church, not a sentiment, not an emotion, but a spiritual love. And he says, thanks be to God who put the same kind of earnest care, that great desire, that passionate love. Thank God who put that same care in the heart of Titus. And he cared for them. Now, with that said, that means that in carrying the money, as he's going to bring in the gift from Corinth to Jerusalem, that would simply mean that he would not be inclined to steal the money that he had been entrusted with. It says in verse 17, for he not only accepted the exhortation, but being more diligent, he went to you on his own accord. And so this is like a father's influence, if you will. Paul's love was so lived out in front of Titus that Titus saw the things that his father would do. His father in the faith, and not only did he see that, but he began to own that himself. It says here that he accepted the exhortation. The exhortation was for Titus to go and finish receiving the offering for Jerusalem, which is pointed out in verse 6. And that is something that might pass by us without us noticing. You see, as a man of God, and a man under orders, Titus saw the example of his father and accepted the exhortation, his father in the faith and accepted the exhortation to do this. Many of the lessons that I've learned over time as a man, the lessons that I learned from my own father were not lectures. They were the way he was. People who know me know that I am a family-oriented person. I love my wife. People who know me know that. And that's just the simple fact that people are aware of with me. But I can tell you this, my dad never taught me how to love. My dad never gave me a lecture on love, not a single time. As a matter of fact, in my life, I don't think my father ever used the word love for me more than a handful at the most. I'm exaggerating if I say five. He may have said, I love you, son, once or twice in 51 years of life with him. My dad didn't use the word. And the other day I was speaking to John. Marie and I do this Friday night kind of Q&A. And John is the one who does the interview and all and asks the questions. And as we were talking, I said to him, as I'm thinking, I don't remember my dad ever one time in my life saying, I love you to my mom, not one time. I do not remember one time my father walking up to my mom and holding her and saying to her, I love you, not one time. Can you imagine that? 51 years. And I never heard my father say, I love you to my mom, not one time, not one time. He showed very little affection in public, very little. My mom was more, she'd kiss his face and he'd kind of laugh, but that would be about it. I never saw that. I never heard that. And yet my dad is my model. Why is that? Because my father was 100% faithful to my mom because my dad was sacrificial for my mom because my dad worked long hours to bring home pay, to pay medical bills and make sure that I had shoes on my feet and food on a table. And I learned what love is. Love is not simply saying it, but it's doing it. And you can learn by watching. And that's what I did. And I'm sure that with Titus, Titus saw what Paul was like and began to know what love does and how love is. God put that love in his heart and he loved them. And Paul can say that he's like a son to me and he has accepted not only the exhortation but he learned from my example. In ministry, it's of utmost importance for assistants to follow through with directions. That requires spiritual maturity. It requires trust. It requires humility. It's important to note that Paul did not see him as a qualitatively lesser minister. He saw Titus as a fellow laborer, a brother in Christ in 2 Corinthians 2.13. He had said, I had no rest of my spirit because I found not Titus, my brother. But still in the kingdom there is authority that's wielded and yielded to. And the fact that he accepted the exhortation shows that Titus was authorized by Paul because Paul is making it clear that Titus is somebody they can trust because he does. He was acting on the request of Paul and shows that he's a man under orders but it also shows he's eager. He didn't have to be requested to go. He would have gone on his own. That's what he says in verse 17. Notice, being more diligent, he went to you of his own accord. He personally owned the concern of Paul and he went on his own accord. He wasn't a novice. He didn't need instruction on how to care for somebody. This love for them motivated him to desire to see him. And no doubt he expected the church to still be kind and loving as well as generous. He had an urgent care, a desire to minister that came from within his own heart. And that reveals that he had the heart of a pastor, an office that he one day came to hold because he served as I mentioned a moment ago on the island of Crete because Titus chapter one, verse five says, for this cause I left you in Crete that you should set in order the things that are wanting and ordain elders in every city as I appointed you. So he was a pastor in ancient Crete and this loving concern made him a good man to perform this task. In verse 18, and we have sent with him the brother whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches. Not only that, but who was also chosen by the churches to travel with us with this gift which is administered by us to the glory of the Lord himself and to show your ready mind avoiding this that anyone should blame us in this lavish gift which is administered by us providing honorable things. Not only in the side of the Lord but also in the side of men. And we sent with him, with them our brother whom we have often proved diligent in many things but now much more diligent because of the great confidence which we have in you. So let's look at this for a moment. Paul sent two men with Titus who were recognized as spiritual men. You see that in verses 18 and 22. They came with Titus to receive the offering for the Jerusalem church. By sending these two other men, Paul was exercising wisdom. He's safeguarding Titus as well as himself from accusations of financial wrongdoing. So let me share a couple of things with you about this. Wisdom in handling church finances is of utmost importance because the love of money has been the downfall of many a minister of the gospel. When Paul was writing concerning the qualifications of a bishop, an overseer, a pastor, in 1 Timothy chapter three, verse three, as well as verse eight, speaking of bishops and deacons, leadership in the church, he said they are not to be greedy for money. We see in 2 Timothy chapter four, verse 10, we see a mention of a man named Demas. And Paul had spoken of him because you see Demas in other books of the Bible who was a traveling companion and fellow worker with Paul. And yet the last time you see Demas's name mentioned in scripture is in 2 Timothy four, verse 10, when Paul said, Demas has forsaken me having loved this present world and it's departed for Thessalonica. He forsook me, he abandoned me and he went to the world. That's the last thing you hear about Demas. The love of the world was in his heart. Money, the love of money, not money itself, money's a tool that can be used for good. But the love of money, the greediness to have, to obtain, to keep, to use for your own pleasure has been the downfall of many a minister. And the handling of God's money is intended to be done so with integrity. When you have integrity and you handle the things of the Lord with that kind of heart, it will safeguard you. It safeguards us from the sin of greed. It also safeguards us from the temptation to steal from God. Because every minister needs to know that the money belongs to God and that the money that comes in should be used to glorify him. Now this is for those of you who may be interested, others may not be, but I'll just say this briefly to you. For those of you who may be interested, I take this very seriously, this kind of passage, and so I wrote this out just to let you know. For many years now, several years ago, we voluntarily hired an independent auditing firm to oversee our use of any financial gifts our church receives. We did not do it because we were forced to. We did it voluntarily. I made a choice years ago. We're gonna hire an outside firm and I want them to come and go through the books with a fine tooth comb and they do that. Our auditors review our expenditures on a quarterly basis. They help us to remain financially accountable. They review our financial policies. They review our procedures. They give us advice. They give us direction in our internal controls in order to safeguard this church from even the appearance of misappropriation. We've been doing that for years to take care of the money, to make sure that none of us uses it improperly, just to let you know. We are aware of that and some people, some people think, well, you know, I see this all the time. This is the world I live in. People will write things on Facebook about pastors. They're all greedy and they're all bad. That's just from Marie. There are others who will write things, but I see that in Facebook quite often. You know, armchair theologians and spiritual experts. I see that all the time. And they say, oh, you know, these ministers are thieves and if you have a larger church, that means you have a larger amount of money and therefore they probably are stealing so much. I remember somebody who was saying that I was getting some kind of dividends from having a bookstore and all of that. You know, they thought I was getting money from the bookstore and things. They think that we do that. I mean, they think that we're ripping off and we're not. We don't do that, but that's what some people will think and some people have said over the years. You know, so for us, we take financial accountability very seriously and that's what we see here. These are men that he trusted. And let me share a couple of things about them. First in verse 18, he speaks of a brother whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches. This is a man of impeccable character. He's known as a sincere believer. In Proverbs 22, one, you might wanna mark this, Proverbs 22, one, a good name is to be chosen rather than great riches. This man was a man of impeccable character. He was known as a sincere believer. And second in verse 19, he was chosen by the churches to travel with Paul with the gift. In other words, he was recognized as being qualified to do this based on his integrity. Now, when it says he was chosen to travel, this puts the Corinthians, puts in the Corinthians personal responsibility. They made that choice. It says in 1 Corinthians chapter 16, verses three and four, when I arrive, I'll give letters of introduction to the men you approve and send them with your gift to Jerusalem. If it seems advisable for me to go also, they will accompany me. So they were ones you approve. Now notice in verse 19, he says this gift is administered by us to the glory of the Lord. So one, Paul recognizes himself as one who administers as a steward of God's finances. A steward is one who's responsible for someone else's goods. And Paul knew that the finances belonged to God and that he was simply an administrator. Haggai chapter two, verse eight says it like this, the silver is mine, the gold is mine, says the Lord of hosts. So he'd been given responsibility for these things and he did it as service unto the Lord. And then second, he knew that he was to do it in a way that brought glory to the Lord. That speaks of accountability to avoid stumbling anyone or any accusation of misuse. He was avoiding any offenses that result in criticism or scandal. I don't know if any of you have seen a page. I wish I could remember the name, but maybe it's better that I don't. But I think it's called something like preacher's sneakers or something like that. Has anybody heard of that? Raise your hand if you have, okay? One or two. There are well-known preachers. This guy has just taken pictures of well-known preachers he'd go to here and he began to notice there's sneakers, there's the tennis shoes. And so what he did, it's actually a page, something like preachers with sneakers or something, John. Preachers in sneakers and sneakers, preachers and sneakers. Anyway, John sees it all the time. He has his shoes in there. No, but they'll show, and if I gave their names, which I won't, they're well-known, $800 tennis shoes and even more and even more than that. Thousands, sometimes thousands of dollars worth of tennis shoes that they're preaching in, that's the kind of stuff that you have to watch out for. That's the kind of stuff you have to watch out for. Taking God's money and using it in ways that stumble people. Even if you have the ability of 40, even if you have an outside source of revenue, even if you inherited lots of money and you could spend it in any way you want to. I was taught by the word of God in my pastor to not live in an ostentatious way, not to live above the people, not to be somebody that runs around trying to look in a certain way and using God's money to do that. And that requires integrity. That requires a sense of not wanting to stumble people, of not causing people to be stumbled because of the things you may be free to choose to do, yet it causes somebody else to be stumbled. He didn't want to cause any scandal. He did not want to cause any criticism to be given to the minister of the gospel because when the minister of the gospel is criticized, the gospel is also criticized. So he needs to avoid any offenses that result in criticism or scandal. Notice how he says in verse 19 that they're to show your ready mind. You have a zeal, an inclination. This refers to their eagerness to care for the poor to encourage them to give. They had not yet given, they had only promised to give. So he's saying you need to make good on your promise. You have a ready mind, but you need to finish what you desire to do. And then he says in verse 20, avoiding this then anyone should blame us in this lavish gift which is administered by us. Now he's already spoken of that in verse four because his detractors could accuse him of taking money from the poor. And seeing that he had put together a trusted team it safeguards him from accusation. His companions could bear witness that the money collected was all intact. And seeing that the Corinthians trusted these men, Paul's honor would be safeguarded. Now again, notice how he speaks of a lavish gift. That's an incentive to be generous. They had almost a year to collect the finances. So a large amount should be given. They had yet to make good on their promise. They had simply promised, but they had yet to make good on it. And then finally, he says providing honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord also, but also in the sight of men. This is a way of making it clear that his motives are pure. He's aware of how people judge him and he's aware of his need to be honorable. That's something that every minister, by the way, every Christian really should be aware of. But I especially as a minister, I'm aware of that because people do see me and they do watch me. And no, I'm not paranoid. Sometimes even paranoid have people watching them. But I do have, you would be surprised. I have been surprised at where I've run across people from our church. And I mean it in a good way, a supermarket or on a plane. Or I've run across people from our church in places that surprise me. They'll walk up to me often. And they'll say, hi pastor, I go to your church. It happens every week in one form or another, almost every week. I'll have someone walk up and say, I go to your church. I've been on planes. I've been sitting on planes flying from here to another state, sitting on the plane. And I'm talking to somebody and somebody has walked up and said, excuse me, is that pastor David? I've listened to him on the radio. I've been in other states where I'm going through, what do you call it, through the line, the check-in to get on my plane. And I've gone through and I've had people who have shook my hand as I've walked on to the plane. You know, guys who are standing there at the door when you're entering into the plane. And they say, I was with you this morning, this Sunday morning, I came to the first service and I saw you. I've had, I've told you this story before, Marie and I were in Ontario, we're gonna fly somewhere. And we're stressed to be there on time. And our plane, our flight got canceled. And I'm thinking, oh no. And I said, well, what plane do you have that's flying out that we could make it to New York or wherever it was that we were going. And they said, well, you'll have to go to LA. And I'm in Ontario. And I said, LA, yes, you'll have to go to LA at least at this time.  I got frustrated and I'm going. And when I get frustrated, I get quiet. I don't get loud, I get, the opposite. I just get real quiet. And I'm just standing there, fuming. I'm thinking, I can't believe this, Jesus. I can't believe this.  And I'm walking one step at a time until I finally get to the table there, the desk where the woman's gonna give me a ticket to or information about flying out of LA. And when I get upset, I start breathing hard. And I get to the, she goes, hi pastor David, I go to your church. Hi, how are you doing? Praise the Lord.  So I've learned over the years, I've learned these things that who I am has an influence on others. And to be aware of who I am and the things that I can do because you never know who you're gonna run into. You never know. I've had people walk up to me in supermarkets and the first thing they do is look in my basket to see what am I buying, to see if I've got some booze. So I learned to hide it. No, I give it to Mary, she has it under her jacket. No, I mean, I've learned. I've learned these things over time. You can be a great example without even knowing you are because you don't know who's noticing. You don't know what's going on. And so what we're supposed to do is we're supposed to keep our motives pure. And we need to make sure that our hearts are honorable because people do make judgments. And when you're careful to bring honor to the Lord first, you can gain respect of others. In Proverbs 16, verse seven, it says, "'When a man's ways please the Lord, "'he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.'" So we safeguard ourselves against accusations. We avoid the appearance of evil. We desire to please God as well as men. We don't wanna cause people to stumble. Our lives impact others. We need to be aware of what they are seeing. And then he says again in verse 22, "'We have sent with them our brother, "'whom we have often proved diligent in many things, "'but now much more diligent "'because of the great confidence we have in you.'" This is another brother that's referred to. Notice he's one often proved diligent in many things. His reputation was faithful consistency over time and trial. You see, some people start out well but they don't remain on fire. They begin well but they don't finish well. Disappointment or affliction enters their life. They lose zeal. They lose their love for the Lord. That this is a man who remained consistent over the course of time. And the church was a witness to his diligence and his faithfulness. And that made him a good choice. And then finally, verse 23, "'If anyone inquires about Titus, "'he's my partner and fellow worker concerning you, "'or if our brethren are inquired about, "'they are messengers of the churches, "'the glory of Christ. "'Therefore, show to them and before the churches "'the proof of your love and of our boasting on your behalf.'" As a partner in ministry, he's above reproach but he's greatly trusted. All of these men have God's seal of approval. Welcome them warmly as they come to you. Receive from you the gift you've prepared because you can trust them. And then finally he says in verse 24, he's saying as you receive them graciously, you're demonstrating your love for God and your love for me.  Remember in chapter seven verse 13, Titus discovered that they were loving believers while you're gonna discover that these men are too. Receive them affectionately, give them the honor that they should receive. I really believe, and I'll close with just a basic thought. I really believe in showing proper respect and honor to those who serve the Lord. I really do. I thank God for all the servants that God has given to us to serve alongside of us here in this fellowship. I thank God. I don't see one person's ministry as less than somebody else's. We all have something to do and all of us are intended by God to do those things faithfully with the best efforts that we can put into it. Not because we're somehow earning some kind of spiritual rewards by themselves that we do, but because we love the Lord and that's why we do what we do. And so when I've had people come to our fellowship from outside, people from different ministries, we always show them honor. We show them respect. Why? Because they represent the kingdom of God. Sometimes people wonder how come I loved and showed so much respect for my pastor, Chuck Smith. I showed him respect because of my love for him, but I showed him respect because he represented the kingdom. I showed him respect because he had influenced my life for the good and therefore I ought to show respect to the one who has influenced me like that. I should give honor to where honor is due and I respected him in that way. So in ministry to me, men of God and women of God are to be highly respected for the work that they do. The labor that they do is very long. Sometimes it's always selfless and sometimes it's not even noticed or unrewarded, but people like myself, I will notice those things in people and I'll say, you know what? I will show you the respect that is due to you because you're serving my king and I love you for it and I appreciate what you've done and I appreciate how you impact me and how you influence me. And so that's how it was with my pastor, Chuck. I had so much respect for him and I was very graced by God in the last many years of his life to be able to spend time with him, to travel with him, to visit with him, to do so many things, to grow in my love for him and I learned so many things just by speaking to him. I have a picture in my office of my pastor and me and my pastor, Chuck, and me and I've pointed it out to people. I said, I can tell you what's going on in this picture though I don't remember the conversation. I can tell you what's going on because if I showed you the picture, you have Pastor Chuck and when Chuck would answer a question, you would always kind of put his hands together, he'd clasp and he'd put them on his chest. That's what he would do. Or he would peel his thumbnail when he talked to you. And he just, those were two of his habits.  And I've told whomever has seen the picture. I said, I can tell you what just happened even though I don't remember the situation. I can tell you what just happened. I said, look at his body language. You can see that Chuck's leaning back. His hands are on his chest. He's answering a question. He's telling me something. And now look at the way I am with him. Kind of, you know, like I was his sheep and he was my shepherd and he was speaking to me words of wisdom from the word of God by the spirit of God. I said, I can see I'm learning something from my pastor. It's my favorite picture that I have of me and Pastor Chuck where he's sharing with me what was deep in his heart. And Paul is simply saying, honor these men, respect them, you can trust them. Titus, he has the same kind of love for you that I have. God put it in my heart and he put it in his heart. And a man who loves you like that, you should respect and you should listen to and you can trust because this man will not steal from you because he's a son with a father and even as Paul was a father to that church, he was a father to Titus and Titus would follow his influence because as a father he had laid in him spiritual foundations for a righteous life. You can respect that man and you can respect these others who are with them because I trust them, show them honor, you can trust them too. And that's how it ought to be in church, don't you think?


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Alright, welcome to Drupal Camp London, lovely new facility, I've never seen a lecture theatre set up like this, this is great, very communal, so you've got to try and find some of this here, of course. And right, so I've got a rather cryptically titled future of content and the unknown consumer, so this is a talk that I've done a couple of times now and it's really, it's trying to give you a little bit of a guide to where we are right now in content management, where we are going to be in the future and the sort of things that we need to be doing today to prepare ourselves. But first of all, I just want to quickly introduce myself. Those who do know me from the past have been in the Drupal community for many, many years, but you probably would have known me from Icos. Since this time last year, Icos has officially merged with Invika to become one, because we used to run as these four separate brands and so this time last year we were still Icos and a part of the Invika group and now we're purely known as Invika, so if you're wondering who Invika are, Icos is now part of that unit. Enough of all that. So what we want to talk about today is the unpredictability of today's web. We want to talk about the things that we are seeing already changing around us and the things that are going to change in the future. So there's going to be a little bit of future gazing, a little bit of speculation and a few examples of things. Now I have to say, from having done this talk before, the examples you hear are not real. They're theoretical. There's no NDAs involved. It's purely theoretical stuff based on examples of businesses out there. I got questioned quite heavily last time I did this to an audience of journalists who thought they'd got a scoop. So just to put down on the bed. So today's web. Now I've called this talk the unknown consumer and in order to do that we need to think about, well, what's the known consumer? So when we think about the known consumer, what we're really doing is we're thinking about pretty much anything we're testing for and everything else out there is unknown. So when we started out in doing web development in Drupal and web development in general, we were thinking about desktops. We were thinking about different browser compatibilities and that was the extent of the problems that we had to deal with. And then over the years we've ended up in a place where we've now got to think about mobiles and think about tablets and different form factors and this sort of thing, as well as of course different browsers. Although the different browser situation is now not as big a deal as it used to be. So what we can assume then is that if we're going out and thinking about a project, we're going to be thinking about aiming at these multiple formats, whether it be desktop, tablet, mobile, super wide desktop or whatever. But everything else out there is what I'm talking about as the unknown consumer. These are the things that are out there that can consume the content of your website that you didn't think about, that you didn't plan for. And what we've heard about of course is this internet of things. So you're here, everyone's heard this phrase now, it's very much what's going on in the press at the moment. Well what we're seeing is that the internet of things when it comes to the press at least and a modern popular perception is that you've got these headline devices. You've got smart refrigerators, these things that know what's in your fridge and can make an order direct with the supermarket to restock your fridge. This is the things that have caught the imagination of the public. And we've got these other household domestic appliances that we're thinking about, whether it be the Hive, these types of domestic appliances that can also connect to the internet now. And really what we're talking about today is what are we doing with these devices? Then we've got a whole other sector of devices. That white doesn't come out very well. But this is an example of a billboard that was run a couple of years ago about British Airways. So what's happening here in this advert, it's controlled by a number of beacons that are detecting the flights flying over in Spickardilly Circus. And what you can see here is it's able to understand what flight just flew over, brings up the idea of that flight, the flight number, and where it's going and spinning up on the billboard. Now this is a couple of years ago, this is an award-winning ad. But this is exactly the sort of stuff that we're thinking about now and that's going to face us in the future. Where does the data from this billboard come from? It's content management system. And then we've got this whole other realm of devices. We've got environmental monitoring, infrastructure management, manufacturing. So big in factories, that sort of thing. Energy management, smart meters are now becoming a big thing. There's a big campaign, at least where I live, to replace every meter in every household with a smart meter in the next two years. And then we've got medical devices and healthcare. Pretty much anything that can be connected to the internet in some way is being connected. I won't even go into the examples that were coming up in the office yesterday. I mean the stuff, crazy stuff. And then we've got the stuff that's also been on the headlines, which people know about and people are aware of, but they don't really make the connection to the content. So we've got the consumer devices, the wearable devices, the quantified self. So quantified self is things like your Fitbit, anything that's gathering data about you. And then we've got this concept of smart retail where you have devices like beacons in shops that can actually tell what you're looking at, what shelf you're looking at, which pair of shoes you've just picked up and also with the use of an app can actually give you a different retail experience. And this is already happening and we're going to see much, much more of it. But the key is, in our context anyway, how many of these are actually content consumers. So we can eliminate a big swath of those devices because they're not really content consuming devices. Some of them are data devices that, you know, your Fitbit, you're not going to read the news on your Fitbit or anything like that, well at least not yet. So we can eliminate some of them, but there are some other examples. And again, these are examples that we know of through case studies that are out there. So Vodafone have a kiosk system in store and we know that it used to be controlled by someone going around to each kiosk and sticking the needed in and updating the content. That system has been replaced by a Drupal system that has all the content separate from the stores. And so that whenever there's a content update to be made, which of course is quite often, that content is pushed out to all of those stores via a content management system. So these are the things that, whilst not immediately obvious, are the types of things that we're seeing happening now.  Every single place that you see a screen, there's content being pushed at you. And this is the future that we have to be ready for. This one is probably one of the most obvious ones. So that was an echo at Google Home whilst we saw with, this has been coming for a number of years with Siri as one of the early ones, but Siri wasn't really open. It wasn't accessible. And it's only when Alexa and the Amazon Echo has come along with a very, very open API, allowing the likes of us to just hack away and build something. And it's amazing to see how many of our Drupal shops and stuff around us are all having these little Amazon Echo hackathons going on. Because it's actually quite easy to develop an Amazon Echo skill that can deliver content. And again, there are Drupal modules that can connect to the Echo, and it makes it the perfect platform really for developing this kind of stuff. But it has to get content from somewhere. So we're going to look a little bit further ahead now, some of the things that are either happening right now or maybe not that far away from us. Again, theoretical, don't get excited. But anyway, this one, FIFA 17 football game, if you're into football, I'm not really, but I understand the concept. So FIFA 17, there's an idea of player rankings within the game that determines the AI, how, what they play, that sort of thing. Immediately this was launched, there's news stories like, oh, these rankings are wrong. Because this data goes out of date really quickly, or it's maybe it's wrong, or maybe someone's opinion isn't the right opinion. So what about if we could connect together the actual source of the data with the game? What if we could expose someone like a Premiership team? What if we could expose their content to the game? What if we get to a situation where, for example, I am watching a match on a Saturday afternoon and a player is injured, I picked the game up in the evening, the game knows that that player was injured and doesn't let me play with that player in the squad. What about if we got to that place where content and other consuming devices can actually do that sort of thing and this doesn't seem that far fetched to me. And this is again what we're talking about with different ways of consuming content. There's not a web page, it's not a phone, it's not a tablet. This is another example. This is the website of the FDA, the US Food and Drug Administration. We have the equivalent in the UK. But every medical device out there has the potential to be recalled for whatever reason. There's bound to be a fault in a batch or it's just bound to be dangerous. The only way to know if, say I work in a hospital, say I'm a paramedic, I've got this device in an ambulance, how is the FDA going to get hold of me to tell me to take that device out of service? It's going to happen via the procurement department of a hospital, probably a big complicated flow of communication before it actually gets to the end user that says don't use that device. So what if these types of medical devices could directly communicate with our content? What if our devices could check for themselves whether they've been recalled? And what if in a rather extreme scenario they could turn themselves off, deactivate themselves? I'm sure there's a few ethical arguments about that. But ultimately, what if these kinds of devices can actually talk to our content and act on that data? So this one, this is a concept from Mercedes. We've been hearing about the autonomous car that's going to be upon us within the next 10 years, if not sooner. And the fact is that once you've got a self-driving car, you don't even have to be facing the right way. Once they've properly got it right and you don't have to take over. So what about if this device has different screens inside it? Again, these are form factors we're not used to. We're not used to serving these form factors. We're not used to having this type of content consumption going on. So these are the things we have to be ready for now. And there's too many of these things. I've given you three examples. And the fact is we can't anticipate what all of these different consuming devices are going to be. And that's why we have to do what we do, which is focus on the data and how we present the data. And the reason for this is very much this one. Software isn't very good at interpreting meaning. No matter how much AI you plug into it, there's still room for error. But what we need to do is find a way to help that situation. So taking the example here. So we've got the Google autonomous car and we've got the root guide from the AI. Now, the root guide from the AI is very nice laid out for a human to read. And do you know what? It probably could be read by a computer to some degree of success. But it's not designed that way. It's designed for visual human consumption. So how we structure the data for machine recognition is a completely different thing. Let's take another example. This is BBC. BBC Good Food site. It's a recipe. And on the other side there you've got a diet tracking app. So what you're seeing here is, again, the recipe presented in a way that's human readable, very pleasing on the eye, very easy to understand, great UX. But how does that diet app understand that content? It can't. It can make a guess, but it wouldn't be a very good one. So these are the things we need to think about in terms of structuring content. Structuring content in ways that means other devices can understand that content. So how do we support them? This is the crux of it. What do we do about this problem that's facing us? A small problem now is going to be a big problem in the future. Now, we've already moved slightly away from this model. And this is the education process we have to go through. The web is not about pages anymore. But a lot of people do still think about the page model. Now, in the last few years, we've invented this semantic markup, semantic elements. And that makes things make a little bit more sense. I can define where the header is, where the navigation is, what's the main content, what's the side content, and so on. But really, this is only sort of signaling. This is only signaling to the devices which bits of the content are important. So what we need to do instead is we need to move beyond this sort of page-centric thinking into a place where you're thinking about the content model rather than about things as pages. And so our essential ingredients for doing this sort of thing, first of all, is a content modeling system and a way of structuring content properly. And, of course, a way of getting this data out there. Funnily enough, both things that Drupal and Drupal 8 excel at. But there are some challenges to this. If we take this kind of approach, then what we've really got to do is tell the content creators that they're not in charge of the design anymore. Every time you give someone a whizzy week, there's temptation to add some design to it. So the biggest challenge here is to step back from that and help content creators understand that what they're creating is content, not for a web page, but for a multitude of uses. And there's huge online debates that have been raging for years on this. So I'm not going to go into them, but I will reference some of them. So the blobs versus chunks debate. This is a great one. Sometimes known as the battle of the body field, which I think Eaton is one of the prime movers on. And again, this is a couple of years ago, but it's still going on. There's still a debate about should you give people a whizzy week? The moment you give someone a whizzy week, they start trying to do layout. We don't want them to do layout, so should we just not do that at all? So the battle for the body field, I encourage you to Google that one and you'll get some great content on that. The second argument that goes along with this is the adaptive versus responsive design argument. Now, again, Karen McCrane is one of the key advocates of this one, and it goes back a long way. And the main thrust of this one is that do we deliver the same content every device, regardless of its capabilities? Or do we change what we send to the device knowing that it can only consume this? Now, the original argument is we should always send the same content. We should let the device decide for itself what it wants to do with it. That's one side of the argument. Without sort of server side device sniffing and so on, we have to assume that we're always going to be fair and deliver the same content. So this argument becomes relevant again, much more so in that if you're talking to an Amazon Echo, there's no point in sending out 20-page piece of content because it's going to want to read the top paragraph. So we have to think about how we structure our content and what we do with it. So the next question that comes to us is, well, why would we want to do this? What's in it for us? It sounds like a lot of work. What's the point? So we have a number of business models here that come into play. The first one being the open data model. So open up your data in the most granular way possible and people will use it. People will use it in ways you don't even think about. So you take a really good example of that, someone like Strava, who all of that writing and running data that they've collected, you can extract that data and do whatever you want. You can remix it. There's great apps that can put all that writing data onto a video, a 3D video, which looks amazing. And they're not necessarily charging for that. So having everything wide open and making sure that your data can be consumed by as wide a variety of people as possible, of course you can have paid API access so you can make it to a chargeable model. You can remix our content for a fee or even a slightly different one being that you can actually pay per access to the API. So these are things that we can think about. And the other thing we can think about is if we're a media publishing company or something like that, maybe we can add more value to our existing content by offering these different devices and different options. Maybe we can give our news feed to a service that can do something with it that's interesting. Again, that's outside of our control. And this always made me think when we were talking about this, maybe this concept of naked content, unstructured, well it's very structured, sorry, but undesigned content. Is this the way we get around the ad blocker? We changed the model, we do something different. So okay, that's all very nice. But we are where we are. So how do we get there now? So this is where we get to a little bit more specific, a bit more practical. We need to have a structured content model and those of us who have been working in Drupal have been doing that all along. And we need to expose the content using a document of API. Now again, this has been possible via the services module in Drupal for a while, but with Drupal 8 this has become much more mainstream and much simpler to do. But the first thing is the fundamentals. It's before you even get near Drupal. It's getting this content model right. I want to give you another theoretical example again of a news article. So traditionally this is what we would do. You've got your headline, you've got your body text and you've got an image. Fundamentally that's it, right? You don't need to do much more than that. This one is taking an example of an article that belongs to a football team as the referencing back to the example earlier. So, well okay, it's an article about a football team. So it might relate to a specific team or to a specific player or to a specific match or fixture and maybe that fixture is related to some highlights reels or what happened the last time we played that team. Or what about if there's commentary? Okay, well we need the results as well. And maybe that fixture is part of a competition, FA Cup say. So we want to see what the standings are in that competition and what if the players in that team for that article or if that article is about specific players, they might have their own series of content, they might have their statistics. So there's a whole bunch of stuff that very very quickly builds away from that standard model of an article. So we get to this place where we have these lots of small pieces of discrete content that all interact with each other. And our process very much is to start thinking, forget the technology, think the content model through how all these things can relate to each other. And then again from what we're talking about today, how we can use those individual pieces. So for example player stats could be very finely granular and could be used for all sorts of reasons. So this one's a it's, you know, loosely theory. But since we've been doing Drupal 8 and we're all switching our heads to OOP, what I want us to do a little bit is very loosely pick this some of these concepts up. Now I'll say very loosely, I did this presentation to a business audience, not a technical audience, so I could get away with it. Will you lot? I'm not sure I will. Anyway, we'll try. So what I'm going to do is take some of the concepts of OOP and apply them to content modeling. So the actual objects, the classes, we're going to say are the same as the content types. And the code is in the form of methods. And then you have a single responsibility principle. So the basic thing about OOP programming is that an object does one thing and that's the anything it does. And it's single responsibility. So if you loosely map that over to the content model, your content type should be really, really simple. It should only do one thing. It shouldn't be ambiguous about what it does. And we don't want to assume that anything else about that content type is present. Also within the content type, each field within the content type should be really, really clear about its single, single purpose. So from my trawling through history of Drupal in many, many projects, to become a bit more practical, I want to show you some anti-patterns that we see all the time have been guilty of, I'm sure. And I'll give you my top three. This is my first one. This is one I really hate. Do you know the non-content content? And we see this one a lot. What this is, is when you have a content type that doesn't do anything, a content type that's only purpose for existing is to take you somewhere else. Basically a link. Now, we do end up in this situation from time to time. But it's just really annoying. Because the moment you've got there, you've got these little bits of content that make no sense on their own. They get picked up by Google, they don't really have a formatted page, and they have to put things in like the rabbit hole module and all these hacky things to stop it happening. But instead of that, what we need to do is think about view modes and how we have the same content viewed in different ways. So this is an example of a teaser. How's this going to work? Okay, a teaser. And the full screen, the full article, which leads up to the full article here. So I'm just going to flip back a second. Instead of having a jump, have a teaser is pretty much the basics of this. There was no need for the jump to exist because we can just show a short-form version of the article. And that way, we've got our article completely in one place with all of its content together. That's number one. This is my other favorite. I refer to the Godzilla content type, the monster content type. What happens here, and this is very, very common in sites that have evolved over many years, you start off with a very clear content model, but then gradually more fields get added, things get hacked around a little bit, and it certainly immediately violates this single responsibility theory. And often it leads from a team's reluctance to have multiple content types because they perceive that multiple content types makes a site more complicated. But in fact, by having one content type that can do many, many things, you're actually making more content, more complicated that way. So instead of that, yeah, it's okay to have discrete small content types. And we think about the relationships between those content types instead. And again, we think carefully about that single responsibility. So there's never any question about, okay, I'm coming as Craig some content on the site, I know exactly what I have to do. And the next one is sort of related, and that's field ambiguity. And this is one where you've got multiple fields in your content type, but you're not quite sure what they do. The way they were named maybe isn't clear, or maybe even worse, they do different things depending on different scenarios. The moment you've gone into this area, you've got a lot of structure of your content type, it doesn't quite make sense anymore, and then you're in a bad place. So instead, we do have to do this content modeling exercise up front with all content stakeholders, not just the techies, we make sure that the people who are actually creating the content are involved and every content stakeholder is involved. And of course, nice clear help text so you know exactly what it is that you're creating. Oh, I've got a fourth one, another favorite. This is the using content for logic one. So again, what you're doing here is you're creating fields within your content types that aren't really content, and you're doing it for reasons like if I fill this one in, make the text, make the background color blue. And it happens all the time, but if you think about, again, you're thinking about non-web page delivery, that field makes no sense whatsoever anymore. So we have to think about this and we have to think about the right way to do it. Don't mix your layout with the content and make sure the application theme layer is doing the intelligent stuff because that's where it belongs. Okay, so what do we do next? We need a CMS with a good content modeling tool set, which we have in Drupal 8, which is great. We need to start the education process or at least continue that education process so that people understand why we have structured content. We're not doing it because we're developers and we like things that way, we're doing it for specific reasons that we've talked about earlier in the session here. We need to split that content from the design, we need to make that separation happen. And in order to do that, we need to handle these creative objections. We need to help these editors and content creators have that creative freedom without actually being a designer. So taking away the witty week. And we need to spend a lot of time on the content model, in fact much more time than you might think you need in order to get this stuff done. And what I see here is that by going through this process, I don't know about you, but every project I do or I get involved in seem to have a massive lump of migration work involved and that might be bringing historic, you know, seven years worth of historic content across to a new format. If we take this approach, this content model approach, with an open API, then maybe we never have to do that piece again. Maybe we end up in a place where that content can live on, even if we change systems or we change our front end or other things come along that we don't even know about yet. So I say future proof of content, but really we know we can't do that. So the best thing we can do instead is prepare, prepare our content for the future. And that being, you know, ensuring portability of content between systems now and in the future. So I think the underlying message for me is this one. It's embracing the unknown, preparing for it now, but really importantly creating a legacy. There was a keynote, I can't remember which conference, it might have been a Drupalcon, from the Internet Archive, about how much content has been lost.  And now we can't read those devices, no one has anything to read them with. And it's the same with content. Because of the fast-moving pace of the web at the moment, we're in a place where we're going to have a 20-year period of content that just goes down the tube somewhere and we'll never see it again. I've worked on projects where the decision has been made to, okay, let's just migrate the last two years of content and not worry about the stuff before. And once we go down that slippery slope, we're going to be, you know, have a gap in history of this really, really important content. Even though we're creating loads of it millions of times more than we ever did, I personally think it's really important that we're creating a legacy in our content and having a content management system with an exposed API that we can exchange the other pieces of is really key. So, I think that's my time and that's the end. So, I think I might have time for some questions if you have any. Thank you. It's difficult to say.  And there's no real stakeholder today that understands what's going to be there in five years' time. There's lots of speculation, but no one really predicted the Andoneco properly. No one really knows what impact the autonomous vehicles are going to have. They're going to have a massive cultural impact on us. And maybe the sort of bit I'm talking about is probably very marginal. But I think we can probably assume that, again, you know, iPads, tablets, and no one sort of, apart from maybe Star Trek, predicted these things very well or what their impact would be. And we're very good at knowing, we're very good at trying to figure out extrapolating what we know now. What we're not very good at is when something completely different happens, which is pretty much every time. And this is why, you know, when cars were invented, they were like horseless carriages. But people didn't really think, they think evolutionary to the next step, they don't think five steps ahead. And nor do we now. And we still are not really capable of it. So all I'm saying here is that we have to do the best we can right now with our model to make sure that we are prepared for these things that are going to suddenly jump out. Maybe we'll be the ones that are in some sort of place to benefit. Hi, thanks. Just think about the canonical model of data. To what extent should we all be just using something like a schema or using that as our chemical reference? So that is doing our own modeling and thinking about how the world might look to our particular project. We should say no, no. But in the same way you're taking away the WYSIWYG. Yep. And the emphasis, because thanks for the choices, should you be taking away the content modeling from the content model and saying no, let's use what is agreed and defined already? Yeah, that's a really good point. Schema.org does come into things. Whether it covers every scenario, the trouble is with something like schema.org is that it can back you into a preset shape. Which is useful when you're, for example, when you're sharing content out to Google or Amazon or wherever, then using those types of models is going to really assist you. But when you're talking about something like the example I gave earlier, it's not really a direct mapping system out of schema.org. So it's a bit of both, really. I guess. Hiya. Hi. Okay, thanks. Yeah, it's been loose. It's been loose, you know. Yeah, but one of the obvious things that we see from what you'll see, Drupal's content type, is inheritance. So you can't have a generic article type that only inherits or is inherited by it. Yeah. And is that something, is that thing, you know, is that something we should be looking into? Well, it's true. And I've not, I've not tried to solve that as a specific problem, but in a way, by breaking the content into the really small elements, you, it's a real stretch to say you are having inheritance, but what you're doing is reusing pieces. And so, you know, fixtures, teams, players, that sort of stuff. So we do find that there is an element of reuse and trying to move away from that gigantic content model or content type, because everyone thought that was easier, is that the content, it doesn't have to think they're just, I'm creating an article and then I'll fill all the bits in. I personally think it's much better that they know that they're ever creating an article or a press release or something else or something else. That, and then they're filling in the minimum they need to fill in and then making relationships with other bits of content, is the way I think. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And you know then that the moment you go to create your content, you're already prepared for, okay, this is going to take me an hour to get this one article out there or whatever it might be. And you probably don't remember what 40 of them do. Or, yeah. It's not just that, it's that you're in a relationship to access it. Yes, true, true. I wasn't saying, we should have, I was asking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm just giving you a comment on the question. Sure, yeah. Come on, say hi. Thank you. We've tried this thing of separating content out into a separate system. One of the things that you've touched on is, is breaking people away from page design. Yep. Are we going into a tip on that process? I wouldn't say it's just, yeah. So to repeat the question, the question was, if we're going to split content from design, have we got any tips on how you actually achieve it? My question is in the kind. Yeah, sure. I'll answer that together, maybe. So I would like a short one to tip through people who can see the state of the mind. Yes. And get in shape and change what it looks like. So the main question is how do you start to educate stakeholders to develop a structured content and how to structure their content in the larger part of the site? Really, the question? Sure. The larger part of the site. Yeah, so a related question, which is about, you know, how do you educate stakeholders to the benefits of structured content? I give them this talk. I try and open their minds to, this is the stuff that you're going to need to be ready for, that it's not in your spec. And if you don't think about this stuff now, your website, the life of a year, maybe two, and you'll be doing this again. And maybe that's what they want, in which case maybe this time I didn't win. But on the other hand, it's about, yeah, as I say, opening their minds past the spec they've got of, I need to build this insurance website, to, does my insurance website need to give quotes over Alexa? And they may be, that might be in their roadmap, way, way, way down the road, or it might not. And they just haven't connected it yet. They haven't connected the, oh, there's a team over there doing Alexa. Well, hang on, why aren't we talking to them? And they'll probably end up talking to each other, six months down the road, and it's too late to do anything about it. So our process really is, yeah, get in early, before we do a lot of discovery, and that sort of stuff at the beginning of projects. It's very much getting this type of thing out there, helping them understand that there is a benefit, and that's the thing. There is a benefit to you not doing this. And actually, do you really want to do this? Are you really a designer? What are you really saying is, I want the image on the left or the image on the right? And we still end up building sites with things like paragraphs, which maybe isn't fully embracing this, but it's a step in the right direction. I think part of an administrative staff, they see a staff page, they want to change the bio of a person. We're telling them now that you don't get in that page, you go to somewhere and you do it, then you find the field in the form, you get the updates, and they say, well, I don't know what that's going to look like. Do you think it's something else? That, I don't, I mean... You don't go to the same... Yeah, it's a difficult one, and you have to... You have to go with the staff, that's the best way... Yeah, and it is very much, you have to sort of show them, and show them that if you do... And currently we're building a project where it's 50 franchises around the world, but all the content is entered in one place and then beamed out. They never see it until it goes live, but we've had to go through the education process of saying if you fill in the headline and the body in these fields, and here's your template of what it will look like, and it will work, and it's definitely a process. It's not a, just accept it. Yeah, yeah, there is a lot of that. So I'm going to... There's another question at the back there. Yeah, yeah. Okay. What's your view on... So you dispose... So the question is, how do we deal with content that disappears after 24 hours? So Snapchat style, disappearing images. I mean, I don't really see there's much difference. I mean, the final few slides I had there was about the content legacy and how I strongly feel that we need to keep the content legacy, but actually in the context of that kind of data, obviously there's no intention to keep it for long periods of time. But I don't see there's any difference. Yeah, there's not so much in that bit. Mm-hmm. How do you... Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's very, very... Yeah, it's really interesting. I think, again, it doesn't change technically how we achieve it, but maybe you could extend the concept of the unknown consumer is the unknown consumer behavior, in that we never really thought that that was going to be a thing that people would want disposable content. Then when it came, it was obvious. So yeah, I think... I don't know if I can really specifically answer the question, but certainly how you would do it and through the APIs and that sort of thing would make it perfectly possible to do it, even if you did keep it. But yeah, trying to predict be flexible enough to predict these different ways of paving, and especially in media and publishing now, we've got all these different places that content can go, Apple News and Google and all that sort of things. So, again, not necessarily predicted, but when you're using a system and design this way, it means we can pivot quickly into those new ways of consuming. I think... Can I do one more? One more? No, apparently not. Sorry, maybe you can chat to me afterwards. Thank you very much and enjoy the rest of your day.