Financial Planning Based on the Bible

Ron Blue is the founding director of Kingdom Advisors in Atlanta. The financial planning firm provides Bible-based financial planning for clients. Blue believes that there are over 2,000 verses in the Bible that deal with money and we should be guided by those verses.

Blue believes that financial happiness is does not come from how much money that you have, but it lies in a client’s beliefs about money and his/her life. The Bible indicates that careful stewardship is an important part of money management, but it also seems to teach that people should be prayerful in determining how much they should give to charity instead of just automatically tithing the minimum 10%. Blue also points out that long-term planning is just a natural extension of Bible-based planning.

He understands that Christian financial planning will not be right for everyone, but for many Christians, he is able to form a great client relationship with them because of the Bible-based money management strategies. Blue intends to raise the requirements for becoming a Christian financial planner to ensure that advisers do not misuse the strategies to defraud investors.

See Veronica Dagher, Bible-Based Advising Raises Up The Kingdom, The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 28, 2012.

Special thanks to Jim Hillhouse (Professional Legal Marketing (PLM, Inc.)) for bringing this article to my attention.