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Patrick Farrell, co-founder of Keystone Investing, shares how God reshaped his understanding of success, stewardship, and surrender through entrepreneurship, investing, and community. After growing up in a generous household and later chasing performance and achievement, Patrick encountered Jesus in high school and eventually rediscovered a deeper, more relational faith while working at a cybersecurity startup. That season of spiritual renewal planted the seeds for Keystone Investing, a faith-driven investing community helping investors align their capital with Kingdom values.

In this conversation, Patrick explains how Keystone creates spaces where investors and founders can pursue both financial excellence and meaningful impact without sacrificing relationships or spiritual formation. He reflects on the dangers of performance-driven stewardship, the importance of wise and thoughtful risk-taking, and why generosity and investing both require surrender to God’s lead. Along the way, he offers practical wisdom for discerning where God may be leading your resources and how community can help shape faithful decision-making.

Listen to discover how surrendering control of your finances can open the door to deeper joy, discernment, and Kingdom impact.

Major Topics Include:

• Surrendering control of financial stewardship
• Investing through relationships, not transactions
• Breaking performance-driven identity patterns
• Aligning capital with Kingdom convictions
• Building community around faith-driven investing
• Pursuing profit alongside Kingdom impact
• Discerning risk through intimacy with God
• Practicing generosity from abundance, not fear
• Integrating faith into business leadership
• Cultivating wise stewardship through spiritual formation

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.”

Links from the Show

• Keystone Investing
• Mark Batterson, Pastor and Author (see our past interview here)
• Praxis (see our interview with Cofounder Josh Kwan)
• Bill and Dana Wichterman, Givers and Impact Investors (see our past interview here)
• Faith Driven Entrepreneur
• Faith Driven Investor
• Eventide
• Sovereigns Capital

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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