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Are you ready to unlock true abundance?
Troy Bussmeir
Troy Bussmeir is the CEO of Generous Giving. He oversees the execution of the organization’s strategy in partnership with the board. Troy first encountered the generosity message early in his career through Generous Giving and he desires that others experience it.
Troy comes from a 20-year banking and finance career, with roles spanning from financial analysis and negotiating debt structures to strategic planning, organizational leadership, and complex legal resolution. Most recently, Troy served five years as CEO of a financial institution, guiding its executive team and operations.
Troy and his wife, Julia, share a passion for seeing God’s transforming power at work and enjoy actively serving in a recovery discipleship program through their church.
What We Discuss With Troy Bussmeir In This Episode
- What is Generous Giving
- God’s view of generosity and stewardship
- Finding your joy and purpose in life
- The barriers to generosity
- How generosity unlocks abundance
- Stories of generosity in the midst of COVID-19
Transcript Highlights
What is Generous Giving
As Christians, generosity has a transformational impact on how we show up in life, what we do, and what we do with the resources that we’ve been given. So it’s really calling people into what it looks like to live in response to that generous gift.
It’s a mindset change from having stuff that’s yours to stuff that is actually available for use in God’s kingdom. And it’s exciting to see people pivoting their lives dramatically in the pursuit of ultimate purpose.
Generous Giving is not a charitable organization. They don’t ask you for money. It’s about examining your heart and they want to create a space where that is most likely to happen. And it’s most likely to happen if it’s not followed by an “ask” for money. Especially those that have resources, they often get asked a lot and you can spend a lot of time wondering with skepticism and trying to measure results. But that’s not what they’re about.
At the heart of what they do is help people experience it by watching others and then inviting them into this self-reflection and experience of what would God have them do or what would God be calling them to live differently.
The Scorecard of Life
We’re saturated with this scorecard where a lot of satisfaction and contentment are said to be found in accumulation and security. But it’s really an acknowledgment that God is asking us to look to him for that contentment. And there’s a lot of freedom and joy in coming to that right relationship with God. It allows us to set more things in motion.
If we have the resources, giving to others becomes a greater source of joy than hoarding or accumulating or hitting some goal.
Finding Your Joy and Purpose in Life
While a poor person thinks that money will make everything better, the wealthy person knows that’s not true. Accumulation is rarely correlated directly to peace, joy, happiness, contentment. In fact, many people on that journey where they have achieved previously set goals find themselves in depression, anxiety, and lack of purpose, instead of being in a euphoric purpose and joyful state. And that’s because we’re just not wired to find fulfillment that way.
Generosity is a really powerful transformational key that unlocks a lot of unexpected joy and purpose in people’s lives.
The Barriers to Generosity
There are so many different underlying attitudes that are fed into our consumeristic society and then they just become tools and voices.
There’s that attitude of comparison where there’s a mentality of needing to accumulate more to feel good about life. There’s also an enemy and his tools are abundant. The enemy uses those to compete against the truth of God’s identity for us found in him, not in things.
Generosity Unlocks Abundance
There’s a supernatural multiplication that happens from generosity. There’s more than enough for everyone and what is needed.
There are so many different resources that God has given us. And it’s not all just financial. Generous Giving asks people to use all that they are in a generous way and then invite others into that experience.
Episode Resources
Connect With Troy Bussmeir and Generous Giving
- Website: www.generousgiving.org
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/troybussmeir
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