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Financial Advisory Solutions, Inc. has a firm belief in the inerrancy of the Word of God, and we know that we are commanded to be good stewards of overall ALL that our Creator has endowed us with, including our investments.

Investments are a tool one uses to accomplish financial objectives and are not an end in and of themselves. One accumulates wealth by spending less than one earns over their lifetime. One preserves wealth by following the principles of diversification, professional biblically-based advice, and planning with a long-term perspective.

Investment speculation should only be done by asking the questions as to whether this money would be better used by giving to kingdom purposes; and secondly, can you afford to lose this money with no adversarial effect on your long-term goals.

Using investments to make a Statement of Faith is legitimate. To properly honor our Lord with our wealth, we need to be careful in how we invest so as to support God-honoring work and avoid profiting from investments that are at odds with our Lord's efforts to save and sanctify His people.

Accordingly, we would be less than the good steward that He has called us to be if we did not seek to adjust our portfolios for these factors. Simply put, a "what would Jesus do" approach to portfolio management is what we seek for our clients.

Learn more about Biblically Responsible Investing with the June 2006 Report from the Institute for Christian Worldview Research, Inc.

 

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MAN SAYS-GOD SAYS: BECAUSE THE WISDOM OF MAN IS FOOLISHNESS TO GOD

IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER WHERE "MY MONEY" IS INVESTED.

When you invest in Corporate stock (or bonds) you are part owner (or lender).

  • Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness withunrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 2 Cor 6:14 (KJV)
  • Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals. 1 Cor 15:33 (KJV)
  • See Also: Ps 1:1; Prov 22:29; Is 3:10; 2 Pet 3:14

BEING A GOOD STEWARD MEANS EARNING THE BEST RETURN POSSIBLE ON "MY MONEY". SCREENING MIGHT HURT THAT.

It is more important how you make your money than how much of it you make.

  • Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. Mat 23:25 (KJV)
  • For the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith, and pierced themselves with many a pang. 1 Tim 6:10 (NASB)
  • See Also: Prov 15:16, 16:8; Luke 9:25; 1 Tim 6:9; Heb 11:25

I REALIZE "MY MONEY" MIGHT BE INVESTED IN COMPANIES INVOLVED IN ABORTION OR PORNOGRAPHY. NO COMPANY IS REALLY RIGHTEOUS, SO WHERE DO YOU DRAW THE LINE?

When you have knowledge of a wrong and are participating in it, you are a co-conspirator.

  • Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them. Eph 5:11 (NASB)
  • Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil. Prov 4:14 (NKJ)
  • See Also: Ps 119:115; Prov 4:14, 10:2, 24:1; Jer 12:13; Dan 1:8; Titus 3:8; James 4:17

I DO NOT KNOW THE FIRST THING ABOUT INVESTING OR BIBLCIALLY RESPONSIBLE SCREENING. HOW CAN I MAKE AN INTELLIGENT DECISION ABOUT THINGS I DO NOT UNDERSTAND?

No one knows these things by instinct. We all have to educate ourselves about the important things.

  • Poor is he who works with a negligent hand, but the hand of the diligent makes rich. Prov 10:4 (NASB)
  • The soul of the sluggard desireth and hath nothing: But the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. Prov 13:4 (KJV)
  • See Also: Ps 19:12; Prov 28:13; Luke 12:2

I AM COMFORTABLE WITH WHERE "MY MONEY" IS CURRENTLY INVESTED. WHY SHOULD I GO THROUGH THE TROUBLE OF CHANGING?

It is required of a steward to be found faithful.

  • "Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate," says the Lord "and do not touch what isunclean; and I will welcome you." 2 Cor 6:17 (NASB)
  • Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table,and of the table of devils. 1 Cor 10:21 (KJV)
  • See Also: Deut 4:40; Prov 1:15,16; Acts 2:40

MY PRESENT PROGRAM IS PRODUCING A VERY GOOD RETURN ON "MY MONEY." IF IT EVER DETERIORATES, I MIGHT CONSIDER CHANGING.

God expects us to be good stewards of all we possess.

  • "As a partridge that hatches eggs which it has not laid, So is he who makes a fortune, but unjustly; In the midst of his days it will forsake him, And in the end he will be a fool." Jer 17:11 (NASB)
  • Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; Jer 22:13 (KJV)
  • See Also: Num 32:23; Eccl 5:10; Ezek 22:13; 1 Cor 4:2; James 5:3

BUT IT'S "MY MONEY!"

The Lord has entrusted it to your care and you are accountable for it.

  • Both riches and honor come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand is to make great, and to give strength unto all. 1 Chr 29:12

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