KS 431 - Stewardship Over Ownership

1 00:00:01,919 --> 00:00:06,400 SPEAKER_01: Proverbs chapter 22, verse 29 says, Do you see a man 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:07,519 skillful in his work? 3 00:00:07,679 --> 00:00:09,199 He will stand before kings. 4 00:00:09,519 --> 00:00:12,080 He will not stand before obscure men. 5 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:16,480 Fellow marketplace Christians, stop apologizing and start 6 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:17,120 winning. 7 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:20,879 Welcome to the Success Edge, the show that helps you take your 8 00:00:20,879 --> 00:00:23,679 walk as a marketplace Christian to the next level. 9 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:27,359 Here's your host, Christian entrepreneur Tyler McCart. 10 00:00:30,239 --> 00:00:31,760 SPEAKER_00: What's going on, Kingdom Success? 11 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:35,840 Podcast listeners and viewers, thank you so much for tuning 12 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:38,880 into the channel or the podcast, whichever one you're listening 13 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:39,920 to or watching. 14 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:42,640 This is episode 431. 15 00:00:43,439 --> 00:00:46,799 And I'm excited to do this after extra episode, all right? 16 00:00:47,039 --> 00:00:49,679 I'm doing a little bit different uh setup. 17 00:00:49,759 --> 00:00:52,960 Normally I'm sitting over there, uh, but today I'm actually 18 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:53,840 sitting on my desk. 19 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,200 I have my actually my microphone hooked up right here. 20 00:00:57,359 --> 00:00:59,119 I've got some notes on my computer. 21 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:01,759 I also got some notes right here as well. 22 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:06,640 And I've even got my Bible, all right, sitting uh in front of 23 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:06,799 me. 24 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:11,200 The reason for the message today, uh, I actually attended a 25 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:12,000 networking event. 26 00:01:12,159 --> 00:01:12,480 Yep. 27 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:14,239 Uh yours truly, Tyler McCart. 28 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:17,599 Go to networking events, which are actually, I would recommend 29 00:01:17,599 --> 00:01:20,159 you go into a networking event uh if you've never been to a 30 00:01:20,159 --> 00:01:21,359 networking event. 31 00:01:21,519 --> 00:01:26,640 Um, this one actually happened to be actually at uh the private 32 00:01:26,799 --> 00:01:29,680 Christian school that my uh kids attend. 33 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:35,840 And uh about every other month uh they actually do a uh um a 34 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:39,200 networking event just to gather up any kind of business leaders. 35 00:01:39,439 --> 00:01:44,959 So today they actually uh had Coach uh Kenny Dallas, my son, 36 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:49,120 Tyler Jr.'s head football coach, uh share this morning. 37 00:01:49,439 --> 00:01:54,239 And uh he brought up actually in his uh before we actually did 38 00:01:54,239 --> 00:01:57,359 finish up our networking event, uh he just did a quick little 39 00:01:57,359 --> 00:02:02,319 Bible study and reference to uh the parable of the talents. 40 00:02:02,959 --> 00:02:05,920 And I'm not gonna get in, I might get into that a little 41 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:10,319 bit, uh, but it just sparked in me uh this whole entire thing 42 00:02:10,319 --> 00:02:13,919 that I've actually been really kind of wrestling, I won't say 43 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:17,840 wrestling with, but meditating on since really November. 44 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:25,039 And that is stewardship versus ownership. 45 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:28,400 Stewardship versus ownership. 46 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:33,680 And I want you to follow me a little bit because this has been 47 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:37,840 rolling around in me for a little bit of time, but I want 48 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:42,400 to actually just kind of give you a context of this and kind 49 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,680 of why it really kind of ministered to me and it might 50 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:49,360 minister to you, uh my listener or you know, viewer. 51 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:54,240 So I attended, as you guys might know, I attended the event uh 52 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:59,120 with David Green uh and his family at Hobby Lobby uh back in 53 00:02:59,120 --> 00:02:59,919 November. 54 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:06,960 And at that event, uh David Green actually referenced a book 55 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:11,759 um and actually something that the Lord uh talked with him 56 00:03:11,759 --> 00:03:15,120 about uh that happened right around the time that whenever he 57 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:17,759 was getting ready to turn 60 years old. 58 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:21,439 And uh today he's at he's 84, so this has been 20 years ago. 59 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:27,360 So this is right around maybe 2000-ish, uh uh 2000-ish, 99, 60 00:03:27,439 --> 00:03:30,800 2000, somewhere in there, that he was telling the story. 61 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:36,879 And as the story kind of goes, he was wrestling with the whole 62 00:03:36,879 --> 00:03:41,759 entire idea of how am I supposed to transition you know our 63 00:03:41,759 --> 00:03:42,240 business. 64 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,439 And Hobby Lobby was actually getting ready to crestover or 65 00:03:45,439 --> 00:03:48,240 was right at a billion dollars in sales. 66 00:03:48,479 --> 00:03:49,759 Fairly significant. 67 00:03:49,919 --> 00:03:54,159 He was the owner, uh, him and his wife had about 85% of the 68 00:03:54,159 --> 00:03:54,879 ownership. 69 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:58,800 Uh they had three children, and of those three children, uh, 70 00:03:58,879 --> 00:04:02,719 they all had 5% interest or equity in the business. 71 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:06,080 And, you know, he was starting this whole entire thing of like 72 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:08,080 the way that uh things are supposed to be going. 73 00:04:08,319 --> 00:04:11,360 I'm supposed to retire, I'm supposed to kind of, you know, 74 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:18,160 go down to Florida, sail off in the sunset, uh sip on, you know, 75 00:04:18,319 --> 00:04:19,439 I don't know, my ties. 76 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,160 I don't know if he, I don't think he drinks or anything like 77 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:23,600 that, but whatever. 78 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:28,800 And go and enjoy the fruits of my labor, which in in all 79 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:32,319 retrospect is kind of, and then this is maybe a side thing, that 80 00:04:32,319 --> 00:04:34,879 the Bible doesn't even talk about retirement. 81 00:04:34,959 --> 00:04:38,160 Uh the Bible never even mentions the word, and that might be 82 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:40,079 another episode for another day. 83 00:04:40,399 --> 00:04:44,240 But David Green just couldn't get his hand hands or arms 84 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:49,680 around this whole entire idea of like succession and passing the 85 00:04:49,759 --> 00:04:54,160 um the actual business off to his kids, or who would be the 86 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:58,240 person to take over uh if he retired and went on uh down to 87 00:04:58,240 --> 00:04:58,800 Florida. 88 00:04:58,879 --> 00:05:00,399 Uh, was that what he was supposed to do? 89 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:01,759 Was he supposed to retire? 90 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:05,680 And he was sitting there wrestling with this uh during 91 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:10,480 that time of the early 2000s uh with him and you know it would 92 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:11,519 keep him up at night. 93 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:17,199 Well, after a couple months of this, uh, one night he was 94 00:05:17,199 --> 00:05:21,600 actually talking with the Lord and it was late at night, and 95 00:05:21,759 --> 00:05:30,399 Holy Spirit basically said, if the Jones family owned Hobby 96 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:32,800 Lobby, how would you act? 97 00:05:32,959 --> 00:05:34,160 What would you do? 98 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:37,920 And David was like, Well, um, quite honestly, I really 99 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:41,439 wouldn't be that concerned about the succession plan. 100 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:44,639 I wouldn't be concerned about who was gonna run the business 101 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:47,920 because that wasn't my job at all to try to figure that out. 102 00:05:48,079 --> 00:05:52,079 I just needed to be the the good CEO right now that I needed to 103 00:05:52,079 --> 00:05:52,399 be. 104 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:56,240 And yeah, I mean, that's be kind of where I would uh where I 105 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:57,360 would need to be at. 106 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:01,839 Well, the Lord said, Well, David, hello. 107 00:06:02,399 --> 00:06:05,680 I'm the owner of Hobby Lobby, not you. 108 00:06:06,079 --> 00:06:06,399 Okay. 109 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:13,360 So if I'm the owner of the Hobby Lobby, then you are just the CEO 110 00:06:13,519 --> 00:06:17,600 or steward or head steward, if you want to look at it from that 111 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:22,399 perspective, head steward of actually the business. 112 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:29,040 And that set off in David, uh, David Green, a whole chain of 113 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:32,800 events and a whole different mindset that he began to 114 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:37,199 actually look through the lens of business ownership versus 115 00:06:37,199 --> 00:06:38,560 stewardship. 116 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:43,279 And when he shared that story with me, it really impacted me, 117 00:06:43,439 --> 00:06:48,879 guys, to the point where I'm like, golly, man, um, you know, 118 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:52,000 if you're the owner, and this is very key what I'm getting ready 119 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,920 to say, if you're the owner of the business, then all the 120 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:58,000 responsibility falls on you. 121 00:06:58,720 --> 00:06:59,040 Okay. 122 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:05,600 If you're the one trying to run your family or head your family 123 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:09,360 up, or you know, if you're trying to lead an organization, 124 00:07:10,879 --> 00:07:16,240 then that responsibility, that duty that you have can seem 125 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:17,759 very, very heavy. 126 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:23,600 But if you actually look at it through the gospel or through 127 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:28,399 the teachings of uh of Jesus and kind of how the Bible talks 128 00:07:28,399 --> 00:07:32,959 about that God is actually the owner of it all, uh, you know, 129 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:36,800 that's I think it says somewhere in Colossians that, you know, he 130 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:42,959 is the he everything was made by him, but it was also made for 131 00:07:42,959 --> 00:07:43,199 him. 132 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:46,240 Um, I think that's somewhere in Colossians, I'm not exactly 133 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:46,639 sure. 134 00:07:46,959 --> 00:07:52,560 But God has a purpose, and God actually wants everything to run 135 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:53,199 through him. 136 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:56,399 It was never meant to be separated from him, it was meant 137 00:07:56,399 --> 00:07:57,439 to all be run through him. 138 00:07:57,759 --> 00:08:03,680 And so this whole idea of stewardship really needs to kind 139 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:08,879 of come to the forefront of our mind because Jesus, towards the 140 00:08:08,879 --> 00:08:16,000 latter part before he left this earth, he talked in parables and 141 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:23,120 used a stewardship or steward or servant illustrations or 142 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:24,639 parables several times. 143 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:30,079 I I mean, I just looked this up right here, and he uses, you 144 00:08:30,079 --> 00:08:36,320 know, where that the owner or the the king or the master or 145 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:41,120 whatever it however this the parable goes is actually absent 146 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:47,360 or leaves and leaves these stewards or servants in charge. 147 00:08:48,399 --> 00:08:52,879 And there's right at about um in the book of Matthew, there's 148 00:08:52,879 --> 00:08:56,320 four, and the book of Mark, there's two of these uh ones, 149 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:58,720 and then the book of Luke, there's three. 150 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:04,559 And we most know the ones of the parable the of the talents, and 151 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:07,200 then there is also the parable of the minas. 152 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:09,440 Actually, not a lot of people actually talk about the parable 153 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:10,399 of the minas. 154 00:09:10,879 --> 00:09:13,120 I'll get back to that one, maybe a little different day. 155 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:15,840 But majority of people do know about the the parable of 156 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:16,399 talents. 157 00:09:16,639 --> 00:09:21,360 I come at that from a stewardship and ownership 158 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:25,759 perspective, but if you look at actually the one about the 159 00:09:25,759 --> 00:09:31,039 parable of the talents, that master or that uh business owner 160 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:36,799 or that king, whichever way it is looked at, gave to those 161 00:09:37,039 --> 00:09:40,720 individuals, those stewards, the resources. 162 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:45,279 He was the one that actually employed, and he was actually 163 00:09:45,279 --> 00:09:48,720 the one that gave those resources to that. 164 00:09:49,039 --> 00:09:51,679 They were just entrusted to actually go and take those 165 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:55,039 resources and actually multiply those resources. 166 00:09:55,360 --> 00:10:01,679 It wasn't the responsibility of them to own any of that. 167 00:10:01,919 --> 00:10:05,360 It wasn't theirs to begin with, but they were still responsible 168 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:06,639 for trying to get the increase. 169 00:10:06,799 --> 00:10:10,639 I mean, even the wicked servant that actually, the lazy and 170 00:10:10,639 --> 00:10:14,000 wicked servant that was mentioned in the word, by the 171 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,120 way, I mean, just the whole entire thing of, you know, not 172 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:21,759 that he he was that servant was actually called was lazy, but he 173 00:10:21,759 --> 00:10:27,120 was also called wicked because he was not utilizing any part, 174 00:10:27,519 --> 00:10:32,879 or he didn't go and utilize the talent that was given to him to 175 00:10:32,879 --> 00:10:35,919 actually increase that on behalf of the owner. 176 00:10:36,159 --> 00:10:40,080 I think that's very fascinating that you actually can be wicked 177 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:43,440 if you're not utilizing what God has given you. 178 00:10:43,759 --> 00:10:48,080 But the master comes back and says, Hey, hey man, you could 179 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:52,480 have least uh put it into the bank and drawn some interest off 180 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:52,799 of it. 181 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:55,039 That's the least you could have done. 182 00:10:56,159 --> 00:11:00,399 You know, obviously there was risk involved, but with the 183 00:11:00,399 --> 00:11:03,279 other ones to go out and try to increase that, but they did get 184 00:11:03,279 --> 00:11:05,200 an increase in that. 185 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:11,200 But it's just interesting how that I want uh us as Kingdom 186 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:17,679 Success listeners and viewers to start to get this mindset of a 187 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:22,960 steward where you don't have the burden of ownership, that the 188 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:29,519 burden falls back on the owner because he is the one that is 189 00:11:29,519 --> 00:11:31,919 actually so supposed to supply you. 190 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:36,399 He's the one that's actually supposed to uh you know give you 191 00:11:36,399 --> 00:11:40,240 the resources so that you can go and do what you need to do. 192 00:11:40,879 --> 00:11:44,399 He supplies actually everything in all honesty. 193 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:49,120 He supplies the opportunities, he supplies the employees that 194 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:54,240 are going to help you, he supplies uh the necessary 195 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:58,720 funding or resources, he supplies all of that, guys. 196 00:11:59,039 --> 00:12:00,480 He supplies all that. 197 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:05,039 And Jesus uses all these different analogies of a 198 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:11,360 stewardship in him leaving and empowering us here to do our 199 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:14,720 assignment, to do what we are called to do. 200 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:19,360 And you know, from a family perspective, I think this is 201 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:26,320 huge because as a as a head of the household, as a as a father, 202 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:32,159 as a as a husband, as a patriarch of the household, you 203 00:12:32,159 --> 00:12:37,679 are called to steward the people that are underneath you, the 204 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:40,080 children, your wife. 205 00:12:40,879 --> 00:12:42,399 You are called to do that. 206 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:44,480 And God empowers you to do that. 207 00:12:44,799 --> 00:12:46,799 God gives you the resources to do that. 208 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:50,799 And it's not your burden, it's not something that you have to 209 00:12:50,799 --> 00:12:55,200 carry, so to speak, all the time, that you don't have to own 210 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:55,360 it. 211 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,320 That's I guess that's where I'm going with all this. 212 00:12:58,639 --> 00:13:00,799 You don't have to own this. 213 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:06,240 You can cast that actually onto the Lord and allow him to be the 214 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:09,519 one to sustain you because he says he's gonna sustain you. 215 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:13,840 I mean, that's that's exactly what it says, you know, that the 216 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:18,320 master actually gave to the servants, gave to the stewards 217 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:19,600 these resources. 218 00:13:19,759 --> 00:13:23,840 It wasn't upon them to go and give the resources, it was on 219 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:26,960 them to actually go and multiply the resources that were given to 220 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:27,120 him. 221 00:13:27,759 --> 00:13:28,080 Okay. 222 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:32,639 So this is just something that was really kind of resonating 223 00:13:32,639 --> 00:13:35,679 inside of me of ownership and stewardship and this whole 224 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:42,799 mentality of us shifting to more of a stewardship mindset and 225 00:13:42,799 --> 00:13:47,600 taking the burden off of us and allowing us to actually be free. 226 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:49,360 Be free of ownership. 227 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:49,919 Okay. 228 00:13:50,639 --> 00:13:53,600 Here's my call to action to you, or here's my request. 229 00:13:53,759 --> 00:13:57,200 If you'd like to get more information or learn more about 230 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:01,440 uh how to create a legacy uh that will last beyond your 231 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:05,759 children and your grandchildren to 150 years, uh reach out to 232 00:14:05,759 --> 00:14:05,919 me. 233 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,519 Uh, I've got a uh contact information right in the bottom 234 00:14:09,519 --> 00:14:14,399 of this uh you know YouTube description, or actually in the 235 00:14:14,399 --> 00:14:16,720 uh podcast description below. 236 00:14:16,879 --> 00:14:20,720 You can reach out to me, uh, find me, and uh let's chat. 237 00:14:20,879 --> 00:14:21,200 Okay. 238 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:23,679 So, King of Success, know that you're blessed, you're highly 239 00:14:23,679 --> 00:14:24,879 favored, you're empowered to prosper. 240 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:27,039 You walk in divine health and spirit of breakthroughs upon 241 00:14:27,039 --> 00:14:29,440 you, and gang, we'll catch you on the other side.