God’s Wealth Plan: The Financial Blueprint Every Family Needs w/ Lee Jenkins

**Lee Jenkins** (0:00)
One of the ways to stop loving money so much is to make sure that you're giving some of it away.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:06)
What are some Biblical principles that can be directly related to teaching about finance?

**Lee Jenkins** (0:11)
The more they make, the more they spend. And that is the biggest mistake people make. Compare yourself to others, and that can kill your finances. Number two, you gotta control and or eliminate debt. Number three, you gotta save and invest. I believe that has kept greed from taking over my life. I work with a lot of wealthy people, and I am here to say that many of their lives were messed up.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:36)
Which one has been more challenging? Teaching people about finance or teaching people in the church about the importance of money and finance?

**Lee Jenkins** (0:42)
In the church, people don't want to admit they want to make money. As if that's something to be ashamed of. Just because you're broke, busted and disgusted doesn't mean you're close to God. If you give, it'll come back to you, and you'll be rich, and God can make you a millionaire. Well, the recession took care of all that.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:00)
If somebody is not financially aligned, can that relationship even work?

**Lee Jenkins** (1:03)
When it comes to love, opposites attract, but opposites attack when it comes to money.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:08)
Are you really giving money to the poor, to the sick, to the needy, to the orphans?

**Lee Jenkins** (1:12)
The mission of the church is to save souls. Money will test us like nothing else will.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:21)
All right, guys, welcome back, EYL. We got a special episode, special guest. We're just talking to him off camera.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:27)
Man.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:28)
A wealth of knowledge.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:30)
Man.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:30)
Mike has been in the game for a very long period of time, going back over, what, 30 years?

**Lee Jenkins** (1:36)
Yeah, about 30 years, man. Well, actually-
40 Yeah, man, I started in the business in 1987, man, as a stockbroker.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:46)
About to have that 40th anniversary.

**Lee Jenkins** (1:47)
Yeah, man, that's crazy. I can't believe I'm that old, man, but it's experience and it's a life live that I've learned a lot from.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:57)
This might be our first interview with an actual former stockbroker.

**Lee Jenkins** (2:00)
Yeah, man.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:01)
They don't really exist at the same way that they used to.

**Lee Jenkins** (2:04)
It's exactly right. That's what they used to call it, the stockbrokers, not investment advisors or financial advisors, real stockbrokers, man.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:13)
With the paper.

**Lee Jenkins** (2:14)
Yeah, man.

**SPEAKER_2** (2:15)
So, Lee Allen Jenkins, pastor, former stockbroker, financial expert, former NFL player.

**Lee Jenkins** (2:25)
Yeah, one year with the NFL.

**SPEAKER_2** (2:26)
Yes. So, a lot to talk about.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:29)
Entertainment as well.

**Lee Jenkins** (2:31)
Yeah. Before I became a stockbroker, I was the road manager and business manager for the Winans, man. The number one gospel group in the world.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:41)
I saw the Bible, man.

**Lee Jenkins** (2:42)
Yeah, thank you, man. Thank you. I read it, man. And I've done some work with Kurt Franklin, too, man, over the years.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:48)
Great. That's why I was a UIL alum.

**Lee Jenkins** (2:50)
That's my dude. Yeah.

**SPEAKER_2** (2:53)
Yeah. So, your church is 4,000 members outside of Atlanta.

**Lee Jenkins** (2:56)
Yep.

**SPEAKER_2** (2:57)
Once again, you worked for Wall Street for 25 years, believe.

**Lee Jenkins** (2:59)
Yes, right. 25 years.

**SPEAKER_2** (3:00)
You were an athlete and now you're online and you have a mix of ministry and finance.

**Lee Jenkins** (3:09)
Yes.

**SPEAKER_2** (3:09)
I would say, right?

**Lee Jenkins** (3:10)
Yes. I would call it, I mean, my priority is the church, obviously. I'm a pastor, but I definitely integrate financial teaching within my sermons. And I do a lot of stuff outside of the walls of the church to empower people financially.
And one of the reasons I do that is because I believe that's a ministry, just like teaching people the Bible, teaching people money is a ministry too. And Jesus did that a lot and folks just don't talk about it, which is one of the reasons people handle their money so poorly, because we aren't being educated about it in schools and our families or in the church. So one of my callings, guys, is to bring back not just Bible teaching in the church, but financial teaching from a biblical perspective.

**SPEAKER_2** (4:00)
Alright, so we're going to definitely talk about that. That's interesting. But first and foremost, thank you for joining us.