KS 428 - Building A Multi-Generational Culture Of Generosity

Ready to turn generosity from a good intention into a family culture that lasts? We walk through a practical, faith-driven blueprint for building a multi-generational legacy—one that aligns your money, mission, and mindset so your children and their children can carry it forward with clarity and conviction.

We start by reframing success through a family worldview: Scripture emerges from family and tribe, not isolated individuals, and that lens changes everything. Instead of raising kids to simply “launch,” we equip a team to advance together. From there, we unpack the tools that make legacy real: writing a family vision, mission, and values; holding regular family meetings; and creating a code of conduct for conflict and restoration. These simple rhythms protect trust, turn principles into practice, and keep everyone rowing in the same direction.

Then we get tactical about generosity. You’ll hear why a dedicated giving account prevents hesitation, how clear guidelines focus impact, and how giving meetings help kids participate in wise decisions. We dig into a stewardship philosophy that starts with God’s ownership and ends with eternal impact, showing how stories and shared experiences make the lesson stick. Along the way, we highlight modern and biblical models—from the Green family’s structured generosity to King David’s catalytic gift—that inspire bold action without drift. By the end, you’ll have seven concrete steps to make generosity sticky: define stewardship, model it, fund a giving bucket, set guidelines, meet regularly, practice random kindness, and automate systematic giving.

If this sparks your heart, share it with someone who needs a framework, then write your stewardship philosophy and open that giving bucket. Subscribe for more faith and marketplace leadership, leave a review to help others find the show, and message me if you want help with legacy planning and family banking.

Transcript

New Video Era And Mission

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So, what's going on, Kingdom Success listeners and viewers? Thank you so much for tuning in. Yours truly, Tyler McCart, coming at you, and I want to talk to you guys a little differently than what I normally do. Over the last couple weeks, uh, I have been in prayer, journaling, talking to Holy Spirit, and I really do believe and feel like I need to start doing my podcast, which is Kingdom Success, and actually doing that on YouTube as well. So I'll have a video portion of this podcast that I'm doing, um, which has been around for the last 12 years, and I've got 426 episodes that I've done. So today uh will be the first uh, I guess, of this video portion that I'm gonna be doing. So, what is the kingdom success? What is what is this all about? What is this podcast all about? First and foremost, just want to let you know that we're gonna talk about how to be successful in the marketplace as a born-again child of the most high God. That's that's first and foremost because that's really kind of where my heart uh really resonates, uh, especially towards men. I'm just gonna go ahead and tell you that I'm gonna be gearing this a lot towards men because I'm a dude and I understand that uh from a dude's perspective. I'm a I'm a husband, uh I'm a father, I'm a business uh man. And so I really do want to come across with helping men, uh especially dads and fathers and husbands, um, be able to maximize their potential um in the kingdom of God. Let me say that one more time. My mission is to help you maximize your potential in the kingdom of God, in the marketplace specifically, uh, because that's that's really where my heart is. Uh secondly, you know, we might we're gonna talk about various topics. Uh if you've been around me, again, my audit, my audience uh that I have that basically listens to me only on the audio version of my podcast, they know that I'm all about faith, I'm all about um success principles, I'm all about reviewing books, uh, I'm all about uh telling you what's going on in my life that might help you with your life. Uh so I I am all about that uh right there. So I'm actually starting this journey of living the legacy life. Now, there's a whole lot of meaning behind that, and I'm actually with business-wise, I'm actually getting ready to uh I believe we're we're really kind of the breadcrumbs that I feel like the Holy Spirit is leading me currently right now down this path of actually um partnering up with an organization and um helping families actually create a legacy plan, a succession plan, not just from a business perspective, but we're talking about connecting the dice, making the links happen with your children and your children's children, and even your children's children's children. Yeah, um, I am a fourth generation Christian uh through my mom's side of the family. Um, I don't know whether or not my great-great-great-great-grandfather was a Christian. I know that my great-grandfather was a Christian, but again, I don't know whether or not um anybody beyond that was a Christian. But my great-grandfather was a Christian on my mom's side, my grandfather was a Christian, uh, strong believer. My dad was a Christian, I'm a Christian, and so I've linked that now. If you can see the pattern, I've linked that to my own children as well. And I actually participated in a kind of a building blocks, I guess, workshop that lasted about an hour with a gentleman named Bill High. And uh his organization is Legacy Stone. But I wanted to tell talk to you guys uh actually about how to make generosity stick generationally. Yeah. I want you to hear that again. How to make generosity stick generationally. It's you have to be intentional with it. Okay. So a couple quick things that uh I want to lay the groundwork for. Number one, family view, family worldview has to be viewed. The Bible was written not as a collective of individuals, but it was written from a family world view. That's how it originated. If you go back and you look at how that Moses started to take all these oral stories that were given in Genesis, all the way even through uh Exodus, to the time whenever Moses actually started to, you know, lead the people of Israel out of Egypt. I'm sure that Moses started documenting all those stories, creating what that we know as the Torah, which is really kind of the Jewish five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy's. Well, it was written for a family, and this is how that they stuck together. Because my number two point of a family worldview is this right here. Family is a team. Family is not a nest where you're gonna kick your kids out once they turn 18 or whatever age they turn, but family is there as a team to advance together. Number two, God designed our family for multi-generational impact. So I want you to hear that. Not just so that you can get saved and get your ticket to go to heaven, which that's a good thing. Don't get me wrong, that is a very good thing, but I also want to make sure you know that seeing your children become a Christian and seeing your grandchildren become a Christian, and even your great-grandchildren become a Christian is vitally important. This is the whole goal of multi-generational impact. In this workshop, we talked about what is the secret of actually building a family that's multi-generational. I've begun the process, number one, actually creating a vision, uh, mission, and values for my family. We've actually started having family meetings that I'm not actually going to reference. That's actually one of my other points is actually have regular family meetings with your family to be able to do this. This is how you do it generationally. All right. You also create this code of conduct, okay? This code of conduct of how to handle conflict, how to deal with restoration within the family. Because trust me, in any family, there's going to be conflict. In any family, there needs to be restoration. And this is a big, big key to actually having something that can stick together generationally. Number three, like I've already mentioned, that actually having a family, regular family meetings. It's not so much a business meeting, per se, of the family. It is a business of the family, not a business meeting, but a the business of the family that needs to be discussed at this business meeting. Generosity is number four. Okay. Actually, if you want to have family legacy and you want to actually create something long term, actually having a family generosity is going to be critical to actually creating multi-generational impact down the road. You know, history, one of the one of the key families that you can look at this kind of a a little bit somewhat, I wouldn't say modern day, uh, or actually you can use them as a modern day. I'll use this one as a modern day, is actually the Green family. Um the Green family is uh David Green started Hobby Lobby. Uh he actually just wrote this book, The Legacy Life, and I just got done reading it probably goodness, uh, about a week and a half ago. They have set up guidelines within their family because Hobby Lobby is a$8 billion company, and they've set up guidelines of where they're going to give and where they're not going to give. And they've set aside that they want to give. They, I believe they put this in their bylaws. I can't really, you know, don't hold me to that, but I believe that they put that in their bylaws that they're going to give 50% of their profit that what the company makes. Yeah. That's a big number. But again, this is a modern day family. You can look at it from a biblical standpoint from a family. Um, in 1 Corinthians, 1 Chronicles actually 29, verses uh 2 and 3, you find where that David, King David, this is kind of towards the back end of his life, he decides to that he's going to give, he's already set aside a whole bunch of assets and resources to actually build the temple, which his son Solomon is going to do, but he actually gives out his of his personal treasury, his own personal treasury. I can't even, I don't know exactly the number. I know that people have quantitated the number, like in like a billion dollars, that what David, King David, actually gave of his own money to the cause for that, which inspired, here's the key thing, which inspired other family members, other family members to give and even other members of his inner circle. I think the you know uh these 30 men that were around David that also were inspired to give into this cause. So your giving can inspire other people generationally. So, how do we make this sticky? How do we make it sticky? And I'm just gonna wrap this up. I'm not gonna go through every single one of these points here because it would take me too long to go through every one of these points, but I just want to wrap this up with this right here. How do we make it sticky? Number one, number one, we actually have to develop your own stewardship philosophy. Now, this actually comes from Bill Hive and his legacy stone, and this is his information. So I've but I've been just packaging up in my own words. So what is your stewardship philosophy? Think about that now. You know, you've got to know why you give. Why do you give? It can't be just something say, oh, we just give just because, you know, I always had to, I always were told to to give 10% of my money. You know, my mom and dad used to always say to, you know, we give uh, you know, 10% just because that's just what we did. No, you have to actually understand the why yourself personally and to be able to communicate that to your family. Now, your philosophy, I'm just gonna list off a couple things of what Bill actually said of his philosophy. He says, I know that God is the owner of everything. I know that I'm a steward of the resources what God has given me. So I actually have charge over that. God's given me charge over those things. I also know that I'm held accountable by God Almighty for the resources that He's given me. And I also realize that any of this world, material things, is really gonna be lost, burn up at the end of it all. It's it really means nothing, quite honestly. Now, the only thing we can take to heaven, because obviously we have heaven on our mind, the only thing we can take to heaven is actually people. Our family should be the first priority of taking to heaven. That is the number one asset. That's all that God cares about, is taking people to heaven. Number two, or actually, this is the last one as far as a philosophy of stewardship, is where you invest in eternity. So are you actually giving into organizations that actually want people to come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, or at least give the pathway of that to, say, someone that needs to know about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ? Because that's that's ultimately kind of how you look at this. Number two, you teach and model that stewardship philosophy. And this is where you capture the emotion and the experiences. So you tell stories of you giving and you create these opportunities when you're in your family to actually go and experience what it means to give. This is how you make it sticky. Number three, you set up a giving bucket or a giving account. You don't mix your groceries with your actual giving. Okay, so your grocery money and your light bill money doesn't need to be mixed in there with your actual money that you actually give. This was one thing that I I kind of felt like I used to do. I actually have a giving account. Amy and I, my wife and I have got a giving account that we have set up. I haven't really been funding that actually lately. I really haven't. And a situation popped up where that um a young lady uh reached out to me and said, I'd really like for you to support me if you're open to it. Pray, pray about this. But I'd really like for you to support me as I go on a mission trip uh to a to this country. And I I immediately go and look at my bank account and my budget, and I go, man, um I've already kind of I got these bills coming up, right? And I've already allocated this money to these bills, and so I had to delay me actually giving into her mission. Now think about that. Because I didn't have the money separated and already have a designated fund, an account, I hadn't already earmarked that money for that. So this has challenged me to actually do that. And I would challenge you as well. Number four, set up giving guidelines. Okay. Who are you going to give to? Who are you not going to give to? This also helps make it sticky. Okay. Number five, set up giving meetings. You need to have a giving meeting and tell stories about the giving that you're doing. Number six, practice random acts of generosity. This is actually a really cool thing that I've encouraged my own kids to think about doing random acts of generosity or kindness to other people. And then the seventh thing, the last thing is encourage systematic giving. Whenever money comes in, we know immediately this is going to go over to the giving account and it's earmarked for our giving, period. And it's just systematic. You make that systematic and you you set it up that way. So, kingdom success. I hope that that has actually been beneficial to you. I'll give you two quick takeaways. One is if you found this beneficial, if you thought of somebody that might want to know about giving and making it sticky, actually go ahead and share this uh with them. Share this now with 10 people, just with one person. Send this to one person. Now, if you think of two, that's fine, but just one person, that's all I ask. Okay. Number two is maybe my challenge to you would be to create a giving philosophy or stewardship philosophy. That might be my main takeaway, you know, for you is what is your stewardship philosophy? If you if you did anything when you walk away from this uh episode here, what I would recommend is creating a giving philosophy. Now, if you want to take this conversation even further, okay, uh, obviously this channel, this uh this this actual podcast is sponsored uh by yours truly, which is uh my legacy planning and uh family banking uh that I actually teach people and kind guide people down. If you're interested in that, you obviously can direct message me and let me know about that. But uh without further ado, guess what, guys? We're done. We're gonna call it a wrap. Know that you're blessed, you're highly favored, you're empowered to prosper, you walk in divine health. The spirit of breakthrough is upon you guys, and gang, we'll catch you on the other side.