As Christians, we live our lives between two big, competing stories: the story the world tells us, which shapes so much of our lives, and God’s story, which we are to make our primary home.¹ 

Consider the number of hours that we would invest into a CFP program (250 hours), or a CFA program (975 hours). We spend all these hours learning how to be good wealth managers in the ‘school of the world.’ But how many hours are we investing in that same exercise seeking to understand from God’s point of view how we should be approaching and practicing investing?

Lesslie Newbigin, a very famous missionary and missiologist, said, “If the biblical story does not control our thinking, then inevitably we will be swept into the story the world tells about itself.”² We are already in that stream of seeing investing in the story of the world, because that’s where we’ve gotten our education.

That’s why we at the Eventide Center for Faith & Investing have designed this course for Christian financial advisors–to create a place where we can ‘go to school’ under God’s story as it relates to investing, so that we can be equipped to be authentic signs of God’s Kingdom in the world of financial advising today.