Discover God's Story for Investing

Our course helps Christian financial advisors understand and practice God's story for investing.

How do you bring your faith to investing?

Many Christians desire to have their investment decisions reflect their faith, but few have clarity on what that means. Is there such a thing as a distinctly Christian vision for investing? What would that look like in practice? These questions can be overwhelming to try and answer on your own.

Discover God's story for investing

This course provides a biblical vision for investing rooted in Scripture. Combining over 15 years of experience in building a faith-based investment firm with the collective wisdom of theologians and finance professionals, we dive deep into God’s Word to provide clear and approachable wisdom for understanding and practicing faithful investing. This comprehensive curriculum is designed to help you:

Understand

Understand God's story for business and investing.
Practice

Apply God's story to your wealth management practice today.
Share

Winsomely present God's story to Christian or non-Christian clients.
Earn

Receive 7 hours of CFP® and IWI® CE credit and 3 hours of CKA® CE credit

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In-Person Free
Presented over the course of two days, this course includes live teaching and fellowship and meals.
Live Online Free
Presented over the course of 6 weeks in one 90-minute lesson per week, this option includes live teaching and discussion.
On-Demand Free

Complete the full course on your own time with video lessons, guided readings, and questions for reflection.

Additional Benefits

7 hours CE credit for CFP®, CIMA®, CPWA®, and RMA® certifications and 3 hours CE credit for CKA® certification
Resources on putting the theology into practice, including a list of faith-based funds, screeners, TAMPs, consultants, and firms that specialize in faith-based investing
A white-labeled presentation deck you can use to share God's story for investing with clients
Satisfaction of the training requirements for the CKA faith-based investing attestation
Listing on the Good Investor Find an Advisor Tool for CKAs
A "Christian Theology of Investing" framed certificate

Curriculum

1

The World's Story for Investing: The Problem

Learn to discern the story of the world. How did we get here? What are the dangers of investing just like the world?
2

God's Story for Investing: Good Products

We look to the creation account in Genesis to understand God's story for work and its implications for business and investing. What does the Bible have to say about the products of a business?
3

God's Story for Investing: Good Practices

We look back at the creation account to understand the social nature of work in God’s design. How should this lead us to think about the practices of a business?
4

God's Story for Investing: Good Profits

Understand the gift of wealth creation and its proper place within God’s world. Are all profits good? Can profits become an idol?
5

Living Out God's Story: Putting it Into Practice

Learn how to live out God’s story for investing in your wealth management practice. What are the most important steps to getting started? What resources and tools are available to help us move toward God’s story for investing?
6

Living Out God's Story: Sharing With Clients

Learn how you can explain God’s story for investing to your clients in language that they will both understand and find attractive. Do we always have to use Christian language in our conversations with clients?

Meet Your Instructors

Jason Myhre

Executive Director of ECFI

Jason Myhre is the Executive Director of the Eventide Center for Faith & Investing, an educational initiative of Eventide Asset Management to help Christians understand and practice biblically faithful investing. He is also a Founding Member of Eventide Asset Management, an investment firm providing values-based investments rooted in a biblical worldview.

Outside his work at Eventide, Jason serves as a Fellow of the Center for Faithful Business at Seattle Pacific University. He also facilitates the Capital Stewardship Hub of the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology.

Jason teaches the on-demand version of the course.
Matt Rusten

Visiting Teacher

Matt Rusten serves as the President for Made to Flourish. Rusten received his Master of Divinity degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Doctor of Ministry in faith, work, economics, and vocation from Fuller Theological Seminary. He regularly speaks and writes in the area of work, economics, and investing. He has served in churches in North Dakota, the Chicago area, Kansas City, and Madison, Wisconsin. He and his wife, Margi, and their daughter, Olivia, and son, Owen, live in Kansas City.

Matt will be teaching the the Indianapolis and Birmingham intensives this fall.
Shaun Morgan

Visiting Teacher

Shaun Morgan is the founder of Morgan Advisor Consulting, where he helps financial advisors build and grow the practices they envision. He brings a long and diverse career in investment and financial services, including roles as a business banker at JP Morgan Chase, a Regional Vice President at Provasi Capital Partners, and a Regional Director at GuideStone. Shaun also served as Director of Education and Director of Product Marketing at Eventide, where he helped shape the firm’s message and regularly wrote and spoke on its behalf. Most recently, he led business development efforts at EverSource Wealth Advisors. Shaun lives in Dallas with his wife, Brittany, and their two daughters, Kate and Belle.

Shaun will be teaching the live online cohorts and Boston and Denver intensives this fall.

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Endorsement provided by Nolan Dill, who received a discount for participation in ECFI’s Discover God’s Story for Investing course in the amount of $247.50 as a standard discount offered to members of the National Association of Christian Financial Advisors. Eventide prohibits discounts from being based on assets under management or for consideration of testimonials or endorsements and maintains policies and procedures to help ensure only appropriate criteria are considered in offering discounts. An endorsement, as defined by the Investment adviser marketing rule § 275.206(4), is a statement made by a person that is not a current client or private fund investor that indicates approval, support, or recommendation of the investment adviser or its supervised persons or describes that person’s experience with the investment adviser or its supervised persons, directly or indirectly solicits any current or prospective client or investor to be a client of, or an investor in a private fund advised by, the investment adviser, or refers any current or prospective client or investor to be a client of, or an investor in a private fund advised by, the investment adviser.
Endorsement provided by Kyle Hurt, who received a discount for participation in ECFI’s Discover God’s Story for Investing course in the amount of $247.50 as a standard discount offered to members of the Kingdom Advisors organization. Eventide prohibits discounts from being based on assets under management or for consideration of testimonials or endorsements and maintains policies and procedures to help ensure only appropriate criteria are considered in offering discounts. An endorsement, as defined by the Investment adviser marketing rule § 275.206(4), is a statement made by a person that is not a current client or private fund investor that indicates approval, support, or recommendation of the investment adviser or its supervised persons or describes that person’s experience with the investment adviser or its supervised persons, directly or indirectly solicits any current or prospective client or investor to be a client of, or an investor in a private fund advised by, the investment adviser, or refers any current or prospective client or investor to be a client of, or an investor in a private fund advised by, the investment adviser.
Endorsement provided by Candi Glazebrook, who received a discount for participation in ECFI’s Discover God’s Story for Investing course in the amount of $247.50 as a standard discount offered to members of the Kingdom Advisors organization. Eventide prohibits discounts from being based on assets under management or for consideration of testimonials or endorsements and maintains policies and procedures to help ensure only appropriate criteria are considered in offering discounts. An endorsement, as defined by the Investment adviser marketing rule § 275.206(4), is a statement made by a person that is not a current client or private fund investor that indicates approval, support, or recommendation of the investment adviser or its supervised persons or describes that person’s experience with the investment adviser or its supervised persons, directly or indirectly solicits any current or prospective client or investor to be a client of, or an investor in a private fund advised by, the investment adviser, or refers any current or prospective client or investor to be a client of, or an investor in a private fund advised by, the investment adviser.
Neither direct nor indirect compensation was provided in exchange for the testimonial of Andrew Varnadoe. A testimonial, as defined by the Investment adviser marketing rule § 275.206(4), is a statement made by current client or private fund investor about the client or investor’s experience with the investment adviser or its supervised persons that directly or indirectly solicits any current or prospective client or investor to be a client of, or an investor in a private fund advised by, the investment adviser, or that refers any current or prospective client or investor to be a client of, or an investor in a private fund advised by, the investment adviser.
Neither direct nor indirect compensation was provided in exchange for the endorsement of Jeffrey Presley. Eventide prohibits discounts from being based on assets under management or for consideration of testimonials or endorsements and maintains policies and procedures to help ensure only appropriate criteria are considered in offering discounts. An endorsement, as defined by the Investment adviser marketing rule § 275.206(4), is a statement made by a person that is not a current client or private fund investor that indicates approval, support, or recommendation of the investment adviser or its supervised persons or describes that person’s experience with the investment adviser or its supervised persons, directly or indirectly solicits any current or prospective client or investor to be a client of, or an investor in a private fund advised by, the investment adviser, or refers any current or prospective client or investor to be a client of, or an investor in a private fund advised by, the investment adviser.
Endorsement provided by Kevin Fuller, who received a discount for participation in ECFI’s Discover God’s Story for Investing course in the amount of $247.50 for being a member of Kingdom Advisors, a religious affinity group. Eventide prohibits discounts from being based on assets under management or for consideration of testimonials or endorsements and maintains policies and procedures to help ensure only appropriate criteria are considered in offering discounts. An endorsement, as defined by the Investment adviser marketing rule § 275.206(4), is a statement made by a person that is not a current client or private fund investor that indicates approval, support, or recommendation of the investment adviser or its supervised persons or describes that person’s experience with the investment adviser or its supervised persons, directly or indirectly solicits any current or prospective client or investor to be a client of, or an investor in a private fund advised by, the investment adviser, or refers any current or prospective client or investor to be a client of, or an investor in a private fund advised by, the investment adviser.
Neither direct nor indirect compensation was provided in exchange for the endorsement of Scott Lucas. An endorsement, as defined by the Investment adviser marketing rule § 275.206(4), is a statement made by a person that is not a current client or private fund investor that indicates approval, support, or recommendation of the investment adviser or its supervised persons or describes that person’s experience with the investment adviser or its supervised persons, directly or indirectly solicits any current or prospective client or investor to be a client of, or an investor in a private fund advised by, the investment adviser, or refers any current or prospective client or investor to be a client of, or an investor in a private fund advised by, the investment adviser.
Endorsement provided by Lynn Funk, who received a discount for participation in ECFI’s Discover God’s Story for Investing course in the amount of $147.50 for being a member of Kingdom Advisors, a religious affinity group. Eventide prohibits discounts from being based on assets under management or for consideration of testimonials or endorsements and maintains policies and procedures to help ensure only appropriate criteria are considered in offering discounts. An endorsement, as defined by the Investment adviser marketing rule § 275.206(4), is a statement made by a person that is not a current client or private fund investor that indicates approval, support, or recommendation of the investment adviser or its supervised persons or describes that person’s experience with the investment adviser or its supervised persons, directly or indirectly solicits any current or prospective client or investor to be a client of, or an investor in a private fund advised by, the investment adviser, or refers any current or prospective client or investor to be a client of, or an investor in a private fund advised by, the investment adviser.