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Legacy Builders

Primary Motivation: Leaving a Legacy

As a Legacy Builder, you are a visionary who looks beyond today to your dreams for the future. You want your life to count for something both now and after you are gone. If you have children, it is important to you to leave behind an inheritance for your kids. When an organization or cause becomes important to you, you will make a significant investment both in the present and in long-term planning. You want to leave a mark on the world that is bigger than yourself.

Legacy Builders Encouragement

Biblical Example

Boaz (Ruth 1-4). Boaz extended generosity to Ruth as a kinsman redeemer in the family line of King David. He took a much broader view of the impact his life could have than just his own comfort or reputation.

Key Verse

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.” – Matthew 6:19-20

Maximize Your Strength

Your visionary skills and passion to live for a greater purpose can help all of us rise above the here and now of daily living. Ask God to show you how these strengths can be leveraged for the greatest purpose you could ever live for – the Jesus Mission.

Generosity Research Findings

Financial – Though often those with the highest incomes of all the profile types, Legacy Builders feel many of the stresses regarding money that the Bible addresses. Among all the profile types, they feel the least blessed and the most worried about finances. They do give but prefer to give to specific parts of the Jesus Mission rather than to a general fund.

Serving – When Legacy Builders contribute time; they tend to serve in the community. In fact, they are tied for highest of all the profile types in volunteering outside of the church.

Relational – Legacy Builders are on par with their relational impact implementing the B.L.E.S.S. to help those in their sphere of influence find their way back to God.

Shadow Side
The shadow side of the Legacy Builders is "Worry." Legacy Builders express the greatest amount of stress and anxiety about money, which likely holds you back from giving. And this worry doesn't always correlate with financial challenges. Legacy Builders as a whole had the highest incomes of any profile type.
Growth Challenge
Allow yourself to be challenged by the teachings of Jesus so that you can be joyful about what God has entrusted to you and find freedom in your finances, not burden. Committing to a tithe (10%) or even beyond a tithe could be a good next step for you too.
Challenge Verse
"But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well." - Matthew 6:33
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Motivated by leaving a legacy. Lines form from previous lines, and so on. This represents one individual creating a chain of events and influencing many.