Redefining Return
PURSUING PEOPLE BEFORE PROFITS
Our faith in God supersedes our fear of losing money or receiving lower returns. We know from the Bible that Jesus invites us to meet Him where He is. And time after time in Scripture, we find Him with the weak, the destitute, and the lonely. Faith Driven Investors know that if we don't meet Jesus where he is at, we may miss him entirely.
At the end of the day, a Faith Driven Investor’s philosophy is about realizing multiple bottom lines. We invest in enterprises with the desire to generate measurable, beneficial, social, environmental, spiritual, and financial returns. Just the same, we want to bring the Gospel to bear on all these same fronts. Two keywords that define Kingdom investing are “intentional” and “measurable”. You need to have a plan and purpose that you’re driving to achieve so that your investment strategy can clearly support your mission.
As Faith Driven Investors, we work to be a part of the solution. Our investment discussions are about how we can steward God’s resources, while also taking appropriate risks. We don’t want to bury the treasure God has given us. Because everything we have is God's, taking risk isn’t the key concern—it’s trusting Him. That’s the journey of any faithful followers of Christ who pursues spirit-led investments. Our focus can shift from profits and loss to significantly influencing the marketplace around us for God’s glory and the good of humanity.
USING SCRIPTURE AS OUR GUIDE
Psalm 36:8 — They feast on the abundance of your house; you give them drink from your river of delights.
Jeremiah 29:7 — Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.
Luke 9 16-17 — Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke them. Then he gave them to the disciples to distribute to the people. They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
Acts 2:44-45 — And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need.