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Finish Line Podcast Episode 190

Patrick Farrell, Cofounder of Keystone Investing, on Surrender in Faith-Driven Investing

You want to steward your investments wisely, pursue meaningful impact, and make thoughtful decisions about risk and return.

But when your identity is tied to getting the outcome right, how do you move from controlling your capital to genuinely surrendering it to God?


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Meet your guide

Patrick Farrell is cofounder of Keystone Investing, a community helping faith-driven investors align their capital with their convictions. After growing up around entrepreneurship and remarkable generosity, Patrick built a strong identity around achievement and performance. His work at a cybersecurity startup eventually became the setting where God renewed his faith and showed him how business, investing, relationships, and spiritual formation could belong together.

Patrick shares how launching Keystone exposed his own need to surrender outcomes, trust God’s provision, and move from transactional investing toward relationships with founders and fellow investors. He explains Keystone’s approach to faith-driven investing through people, purpose, and profit, while challenging the assumption that Kingdom impact and financial excellence must compete. He also explores why risk is deeply personal, how community can expose blind spots, and why shared faith should never replace thoughtful discernment and due diligence.

By the end, you may see stewardship less as successfully controlling outcomes and more as faithfully discerning what God wants to do with resources that already belong to Him.

What you’ll gain

  • How to surrender investment outcomes without abandoning thoughtful stewardship
  • Why performance can quietly distort your relationship with money
  • How relational investing changes the investor and founder experience
  • Why Kingdom impact and financial excellence need not compete
  • How community can strengthen discernment around risk and opportunity
  • Why shared faith should never replace careful due diligence

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Quotes to Remember

  • “The first step on the stewardship journey is recognizing that all of your capital is God’s. It all belongs to Him.”
  • “If you start there in that position of surrender, I’m so confident that God will do the rest.”
  • “This entire process of faith-driven investing is all about growing in intimacy with the Lord.”
  • “You can make a ton of money, you can have a ton of impact, but if you’re not transformed and the people around you aren’t transformed, then that falls short of what I think God’s goal was.”
  • “We want to find excellent values-aligned founders building intentional mission-driven businesses that are heading toward sustainability and profitability and growth and scale.”
  • “Faith-driven investing can be excellent. It can be excellent for people, excellent for impact, and excellent financially.”
  • “You don’t necessarily have to sacrifice returns in order to see Kingdom impact.”
  • “God is using investing to work on investors.”
  • “God cares about relationships more than really anything else.”
  • “Anything that we set up from a business perspective that deprioritizes relationship tends to fall victim to our sinful nature.”
  • “There are few people within a founder’s life that have more access to them than their investors.”
  • “Most of the time, in my experience, God’s going to push us into more and greater risk to help us rely on Him.”
  • “The steward buried his talent because he was worried about retribution. And the Master is upset that the steward thought of Him that way.”

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Bible References from the Show

Deuteronomy 6:12 | Only by the Grace of God

 then take care lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Matthew 25:14–30 | Parable of the Talents

James 2:17 | Faith Without Works

So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

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