Welcome back to the Family Dynasty Podcast, where legacy meets leadership and we continue our journey through the Seven Capitals of Wealth. Today we arrive at Capital #5 — Financial Wealth.
Now, you may notice that financial wealth doesn’t come first. It doesn’t even come second, or third, or fourth. That’s intentional. Before we talk about money, we’ve already laid the foundation with Spiritual Wealth, Health Wealth, Relational Wealth, and Intellectual Wealth. Why? Because without those deeper capitals, financial wealth risks becoming a master instead of a servant.
Financial wealth is unique. It is what I call a servant capital — a tool that magnifies the others. Handled rightly, it can fund mission, sustain health, strengthen family relationships, fuel education, and expand social and societal impact. But handled wrongly, it can become a snare, blinding us to our higher callings.
Think of Abraham, Joseph, Solomon — men entrusted with extraordinary resources, not for personal indulgence, but for covenantal purposes. God’s pattern has always been clear: we are blessed to be a blessing. Financial wealth is never the endgame; it is fuel for generational purpose.
Today I have a conversation with two of my daughters, Alaina & Elli. We explore the biblical vision of wealth, the tension many Christians feel between simplicity and the responsibility of stewarding complexity, and the staggering reality of generational compounding. We’ll ask questions like: What could your family accomplish if you began stewarding resources with a 200–year horizon instead of one lifetime? And what happens when Christian families recover a theology of financial legacy that is as missional as it is practical?
So let’s step into this together. Because when we reframe financial wealth as missional fuel, not just personal gain, we open the door to a vision of family stewardship that can bless nations and generations.
