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Finish Line Podcast Episode 167

Ray Chung, Leadership Consultant, on Giving What You Can’t Get Back

You want to steward God’s resources faithfully. But questions about generosity, calling, and impact are rarely simple.

In this conversation, you’ll hear from someone who has walked through these kinds of questions and learned along the way. Listen for the next step God may be inviting you to take.


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Meet your guide

Ray Chung grew up in a faithful Christian home in Malaysia, watching both sides of his family run businesses that shaped the fabric of their communities. Even as a kid, he sensed that business carried real power, but it wasn’t until his own encounter with deeper faith that he began wrestling with how work, calling, and impact could fit together. College only fanned that flame, awakening a vision for business as a living witness to the Gospel.

Years later, Ray would spend significant time with HOPE International, where a healthy, Christ-centered culture left a lasting mark on him. For more than twenty years, he has been helping leaders and teams reorient their hearts toward the way of Jesus. Now a senior consultant with Rising Sun Consultants, Ray walks alongside organizations as they build cultures formed by servant leadership and spiritual maturity.

Then in 2021, Ray faced a radically personal invitation to generosity when he sensed God asking him to give one of his kidneys. His story is full of wisdom on surrender, Christlike culture, and what it means to faithfully steward the life God has given you.

What you’ll gain

  • The theology of work
  • An example of a healthy organizational culture
  • Why an organization’s culture is important
  • Words of wisdom about the non-profit model
  • Assessing an organization’s board, leadership, and financials
  • The five elements of servant-leadership
  • Prioritizing intimacy with God as a busy leader
  • Practical tips for spiritual rest
  • Being called to give his kidney
  • Stewarding your story, experience, and relationships in a way the points others to Jesus

Inspired? Take your next step

Try the Game of Life Simulator

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?

Learn to look beyond visible needs toward people, context, relationships, and flourishing.

Applied Generosity Intervention Partnership Fruitfulness

How do you recognize meaningful impact?

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.

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Quotes to Remember

  • “Work is a channel of grace to display the glory of God in meeting needs, ours and our neighbors, as we generate resources that can be shared in the redemptive work of the Gospel.”
  • “Business can be a powerful force for God’s transformation”
  • “God has been at work in these communities long before we show up.”
  • “Organizational culture is really hard to fake long term.”
  • “Culture requires intentionality and accountability.”
  • “Do I believe that the more I work, the more I can advance the mission? Or do I really think that God is at work here?”
  • “Sometimes we need to remember how to be a human being rather than a human doing. I try to give myself permission to be about more than work.”
  • “I used to believe the lie that I am what I perform. But I’m learning to believe the truth that I am loved by the Creator and that alone is enough.”
  • “Our life is not our own when we are surrendered to God.”

Links from the Show

Bible References from the Show

Psalm 46:10 | Be Still  

Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!  

Luke 3:11 | Share What You Have  

And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”  

John 13:35 | Love One Another  

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.  

Ephesians 3:20 | More than We Can Think to Ask  

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,

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