Did you know that God has big plans for your finances? Every resource we have comes from God. As long as we live, we are entrusted with time, talent, and treasure. Good financial stewardship is an integral part of the Christian life.

As minister and author Nelson Searcey writes, “If we don’t learn how to handle our resources the way God intends, we’ll never be able to live the life God created us to live.”

There is a hurting world waiting for people to rise up and manage their money as God intended–with selflessness, generosity, and wisdom. The finances in a city affect everything else, from education to churches. So, we need Christians who understand how to make and distribute money according to Kingdom values. In other words, we need Kingdom distributors who will ask, “God, how do you want to use me? What kind of resources, divine connections, and kairos moments do you want me to steward?”

Who is a Kingdom Distributor? 

A Kingdom distributor is a high-net-worth individual who intentionally uses their money to partner with God. Because they are passionate about serving God and others with their finances, they provide a pipeline of resources to areas of need. As a result, they are a force for transformation in their cities and nations.

If you don’t have a lot of money yet, that does not mean the call of a Kingdom distributor is not on your life. Building wealth is a process, and very few people are born with a high net worth. A heart of a Kingdom wealth builder must be cultivated long before you have the resources to transform society on a systematic level.

Why Do We Need Kingdom Distributors?

Because every church, ministry, and nonprofit needs money to function.

Ministries, faith-based nonprofits, and parachurch organizations rely on support from financial partners. For pastors specifically, finances are one of the leading sources of stress. According to a National Association of Evangelicals report, 90 percent of pastors stress about finances, and 29 percent have $0 in personal savings.

Now, I’m a massive advocate for pastors becoming Kingdom distributors themselves. In the meantime, Kingdom distributors can help resource ministry and nonprofit activities, often giving above and beyond the tithe. You are being a Kingdom distributor every time you tithe, give an offering, or partner with a nonprofit organization.

Because missionaries are leaving their work to raise financial support.

The leading reason that missionaries leave their field is a lack of funding. Forty-three percent of missionaries leave before completing their ministry commitment because they don’t have enough money. 

On the one hand, Kingdom distributors could step up to the plate and fund missionaries. On the other hand, how powerful would it be if missionaries learned how to become Kingdom distributors themselves? If they were empowered with the financial knowledge to fund their ministries through business, real estate, and investing? The Body of Christ could go much further and deeper with the gospel. 

Because money is required to reform corrupt areas of culture.

Now, let’s get out of the ministry bubble. Every sphere of society requires money to function–business, education, government, media, arts, medicine–you name it. In our world, money is a major decision maker. 

We know that God doesn’t stay within the four walls of the church. He is moving throughout every sphere of society. However, there are also powers of spiritual darkness at work.

As Ephesians 6:12 says, “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”

We need Kingdom distributors who will rise up and use their resources to transform culture according to kingdom principles found in the Word of God. This isn’t about implementing a theocracy or christianizing society. It is about being able to meet the needs of a hurting world according to scripture.

Because donations are short-term solutions to systematic problems.

The Old and New Testaments make it clear that God wants us to care for the vulnerable. Consider:

“Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.” James 1:27 (ESV)

“Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.” Psalm 82:3 (NIV)

Now, we don’t need money to show compassion and care to people. You can bet that anything we do with the love of God has a transformative effect. However, that doesn’t mean that it changes their context.

We can visit a soup kitchen or send money to support an orphan in a developing country, but that’s like putting a bandaid on a wound that needs surgery. It will help in the short term, but it won’t change the system causing the pain in the first place.

If we want to help the poor, the widow, and the orphan in a way that brings sustainable transformation, we need more money in the hands of people with Kingdom priorities. We need Kingdom distributors to sacrifice their time, talent, and treasure to transform the broken areas of our world.