Doug Cobb, Founder the Finishing Fund Great Commission Unengaged Unreached Financial Finish Line
Finish Line Podcast Episode 35

Doug Cobb, Founder of the Finishing Fund, on the Sprint to the Ultimate Finish Line

You may want your generosity to advance the Great Commission, yet still wonder where your resources can make a meaningful difference when the remaining need feels distant, complex, or difficult to measure.

What changes when you begin seeing the last unengaged people groups not as an abstract missions problem, but as a finish line your generation may actually help cross?

Meet your guide

Doug Cobb, founder of The Finishing Fund, is a seasoned entrepreneur and venture capital investor who has applied decades of business experience to accelerating the Great Commission. After years of growing in generosity, Doug became deeply involved with Finishing the Task and was captivated by the opportunity to bring the gospel to unengaged people groups where no known believers or churches existed.

The Finishing Fund functions much like a venture capital fund for missions, connecting generous Christians with experienced ministries capable of sending primarily indigenous and near-culture believers into these communities. Doug explains how strategic funding can remove fundraising delays, why local workers often bring both cultural and financial advantages, and how remarkable progress has been made toward engaging the remaining groups.

He also challenges generous Christians to manage their “Kingdom portfolio” with the same intentionality they bring to financial investments and to consider whether accumulated wealth could be deployed now. By the end, you may see Great Commission giving as a tangible opportunity to participate in work generations of believers have carried forward.

What you’ll gain

  • Why the Great Commission may be closer to completion
  • How strategic giving can accelerate work among unengaged peoples
  • Why indigenous missionaries often reach communities more effectively
  • How to manage your Kingdom portfolio more intentionally
  • Why accumulated wealth can quietly become bigger financial barns
  • How generosity can weaken money’s hold on your heart

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Step into a four-minute interactive experience and see what unfolds as you decide how to manage your resources.

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Inspired? Learn how to partner with ministries well.

A compelling ministry story can inspire you to respond. But wise partnership often begins with better questions.

Applied Generosity Intervention Partnership Focus

What is the ministry really seeking to restore?

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Consider how ministries learn, evaluate their work, and pursue lasting change.

Applied Generosity Intervention Partnership Faithfulness

What does genuine ministry partnership look like?

Explore how to foster trust, alignment, and shared mission in your giving.

In our Intervention Series on the Applied Generosity Podcast, we’ll help you become a more thoughtful, discerning, and faithful partner.

Quotes to Remember

  • “Right from the beginning, generosity was something that found its way into our lives.”
  • “That was the most amazing experience of our giving lives.”
  • “Ours could be the generation to see this work finished. I absolutely believe that it’s within our capability by God’s grace to finish this within our generation.”
  • “The business you end up doing is almost never the one you thought you were going to do.” 
  • “Finding those things, those good works that he’s prepared in advance individually for each of us, to me just makes life such an incredible adventure.”
  • “God is determined to see this work completed.”
  • “If you compare the amount of time people spend managing their secular portfolios and the amount of time they spend managing their kingdom portfolios, for most people there is not even a comparison.”
  • “There is hardly anything to be more excited about then the completion of the Great Commission.”
  • “When you become convinced that we are living in the era of the finishing of the Great Commission, it just needs to change our view  of money, possessions, and eternity.”
  • “The best way to conquer the power of money in your life is to give it away.”

Links from the Show

Bible References from the Show

Zechariah 4:6 | Not by Might

6 Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.

Ephesians 2:8-10 | Created for Good Works

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

2 Peter 3:11-12 | Hastening the Coming of the Day of God

11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, 12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!

Matt 24:14 | And Then the End Will Come

14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

Luke 12:16-21 | Bigger Barns

16 And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully, 17 and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ 18 And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.”’ 20 But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ 21 So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”

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