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1. 2015
Purposeful Capital: What the Right
Capital can do for the Kingdom
Brett Johnson
23 August, 2015
The Kingdom Summit, 2015

2. ISIS is a “good” bad example of
Purposeful Capital
“The unpreparedness was not
accidental. It happened because
of a blind spot in the secular
mind…Ever since the rise of
modern science, intellectuals
have been convinced that faith is
in intensive care, about to die or
at least rendered harmless by
exclusion from the public
square.
But not all regions of the world
have gone through this process.
Not all religions have allowed
themselves to be excluded from
the public square. And when
secular revolutions fail, we
should know by now that we can
expect religious counter-
revolutions.”
The re-emergence of religion as a
global force caught the West
unprotected and unprepared because
it was in the grip of a narrative that
told a quite different story.
It is said that 1989, the year of the
collapse of the Berlin Wall and the end
of the Cold War, marked the final act
of an extended drama in which first
religion, then political ideology, died
after a prolonged period in intensive
care. The age of the true believer,
religious or secular, was over. In its
place had come the market economy
and the liberal democratic state, in
which individuals and their right to live
as they chose took priority over all
creeds and codes.

3. Questions I will try to address
• What is “Right Capital”?
• What is the Purpose of Capital?
• What is Unrighteous Capital?
• What are the Consequences of Capital-gone-
wrong?
• What can the Right Capital do for the Kingdom
of God?
• How do we fix Capital?

4. What is Right Capital?
“We have to debunk the simplistic notion
that financial capital is bad, and that any
self-respecting religion would have harsh
things to say about capital and capitalists.
In fact, we have to see that capital,
properly deployed and stewarded, is
essential to the wellbeing of families, cities
and nations.”
- from Repurposing Capital

5. What is Capitalism?
“Capitalism is that
economic system in
which people are
encouraged to make
voluntary exchanges
within a system of
rules that prohibit
force, fraud and theft.”
- Gills & Nash
Conclusion:
• Corruption kills
capitalism.
• Intervention stifles
capitalism

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The Purpose of Money

7. What is unrighteous capital?
• Controlling capital
– Personal, corporate
– Systemic
• Capital accumulation = the goal
– Flow-in, versus Flow-through
• Over-stewardship
– “Over-stewardship is another form of greed”
• Greed deified
– Mammon

8. Consequences of poor capital
• Systems built on credit
• Households over-leveraged
• Nations in debt
• Easy destruction of paper-based
money
• Consolidation of power in the
hands of few
– “Too big to fail” syndrome
– Too easy to manipulate
• Nations failing
The global credit crisis has
impaired the ability of banks,
investors and governments to
provide a sufficient amount of
long-term capital required to
finance important economic
sectors. In the U.S., which is over
three years into the economic
recovery, there are still
corporations and investors that
are squatting on the sidelines,
hoarding $2 trillion, while our
nation suffers a near eight percent
unemployment rate ... many of
our citizens and their cities and
towns are still struggling with
bankruptcies, falling bridges and
closing schools.

9. CORPORATELY NATIONALLY
What can Right Capital do?
• Break cycle of
poverty
• Fund one’s
calling
• Nurture next
gen godly
aspirations
• Impact
Investing
• Democratize
capital
• Create wealth
• Tackle giants
• Bless nations
• Climate for
peace,
righteousness
• Steward
infrastructure
• Underscore
national calling,
purpose
• Re-capture the
“storehouse”
INDIVIDUALLY

10. What must we do to “fix” Capital?
1. Understand the “era” we
are in
2. Personally: grasp the
Principles of Faith-
based Financing
3. Corporately: get capital
backs to God’s
purposes

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ErasofCapital

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Repurposing Capital

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Repurposing Capital
Faith-Based
Banks, PE
Firms, VCs,
Funds
Policy
Guidelines
Not “finance
as usual”
Transparency,
excellence,
purity

15. What the right capital can do for the
kingdom: fulfill the Purpose of Capital
• Expanding order
• Fulfilling God’s plan
for history
– Discipling
Nations
– Transforming
Society
• Giving Jesus R.O.I.
• Fueling
entrepreneurship
• Funding
businesses
• Supporting
meaningful work
• Funding calling(s)
• Creating wealth

16. 2015
Purposeful Capital: What the Right
Capital can do for the Kingdom
Brett Johnson
23 August, 2015
The Kingdom Summit, 2015