David Campaigne Ronald Blue Trust Financial Advisor Generosity Giving Financial Finish Line Podcast
Finish Line Podcast Episode 65

David Campaigne, Financial Advisor at Ronald Blue Trust, on the Importance of Giving Beyond Finances

As you think about the legacy you want to leave, you may find that passing along money is only one small part of what you hope your family and others carry forward.

How could defining enough financially create more room to invest your time, experiences, relationships, and resources in the things you believe will matter long after you are gone?


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Meet your guide

David Campaigne, a financial advisor with Ronald Blue Trust, has spent more than two decades helping families approach money through a biblical stewardship framework. Shaped by parents who modeled generosity with their time, talents, and finances, David has come to think about legacy as something much broader than the assets eventually passed to the next generation.

David shares how he and his wife, Kristen, gradually increased their giving and eventually began exploring both a spending finish line and a wealth accumulation finish line. Influenced by God and Money, Generous Giving, and his work with generous clients, he describes defining enough as a way to limit both consumption and accumulation so more resources can be directed toward generosity during your lifetime.

He also emphasizes building spiritual and social capital through meaningful experiences, ministry involvement, relationships, and family discipleship. You may come away thinking differently about legacy, seeing financial resources as only one part of what you can intentionally invest in people and Kingdom purposes today.

What you’ll gain

  • Why your legacy should include more than financial wealth
  • How spending and wealth finish lines work together
  • Why generosity can grow gradually through intentional yearly increases
  • How shared experiences can build lasting spiritual capital
  • Why giving should include your time and talents too
  • How accountability can help you remain faithful to enough

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Quotes to Remember

  • “We are each born into someone else’s story”
  • “Never underestimate the power of the ripple effect that each of us can have on other peoples’ lives”
  • “Giving freely of our time, talents and treasures is the only antidote to selfishness, greed and materialism.”
  • “A life well spent is a life that earns and uses money to buy time so that you can balance life in order to impact people, to be productive and Godly members of society and it’s a life that focuses on the eternal in the realm of the temporal so that when we get to the end of our lives, we’ll have been found faithful with what God considers important.”
  • “Don’t just accumulate possessions, accumulate experiences. Possessions are a dime a dozen, it’s experiences that are the currency of a life well lived”
  • “If you don’t set a finish line, you’ll never quit”
  • “Do your giving, while you are living, so you’re knowing where it’s going”
  • “A Change of place and a change of pace will give you a change of perspective”

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Bible References from the Show

Psalm 90:10 & 12 | Number our days

10 The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away. 12 So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Ephesians 5:15-17 | Understand the will of the Lord

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Leviticus 17:11 | Life of the flesh is in the blood

For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.

Luke 16:10-13 | Faithful in little

“One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own? No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”

1 Corinthians 3 | God makes things grow

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

Matthew 6:19-21 | Layup treasures in heaven

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

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