The Retirement Reformation
Finding Freedom with Faith…. A Better Way to Experience the Final (and Best) Decades of Your Life
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The Retirement Reformation
This book is not about money. Money suggests buying and selling, while this book is about being and doing. I have spent 30 years building a company, Envoy Financial, most of that time in conjunction with our daughter, Bethany. The journey has been so much more than building a company, it has been a response to God’s call to help Jesus followers prepare financially for their future ministry when the paycheck stops.
The phrase, Future Funded Ministry, and the meaning behind it, has been part of my messaging and a personal focus for 25 years. This phrase encompasses key retirement issues and reframes our thoughts about the financial side of retirement. Retirement is in the future, each Christian’s role as a Jesus representative (changed lives) never stops, and these last 30 years must be funded. Future Funded Ministry addresses the financial piece of the retirement equation. There is so much more.
I tried to write the definitive book about retirement and explain the idea of Future Funded Ministry on multiple occasions. I discovered two things as a result, I like writing, and each time the book started to form, I could not finish it. On the writing side, I have completed two smaller books dealing with the subject matter, and now written close to 300 blogs on related topics. Both Finding Freedom and Moving Forward were partially satisfying. On the larger, more definitive or complete book, I just wasn’t ready.
The reason I wasn’t ready was because God wasn’t finished forming me into the person, I needed to be to write the book. The person I needed to be in order to reflect His content about this subject rather than my own, limited, understanding. We often talk about God’s timing. It’s true, there is a time and place for His will to be reflected in our lives in unique and often unusual ways. Solomon’s reflection in the Biblical book of Ecclesiastes is right, “There is a season….”. Now is the season for the expanded message of the Retirement Reformation.
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The Retirement Reformation will change the way we think about what our culture calls retirement. While acknowledging the reality of longevity, Bruce Bruinsma challenges both individuals and faith-based organizations to reexamine, reshape, reform, and revitalize the fastest-growing segment of our society. God has a unique call for each of our lives, and it does not stop at sixty-five or seventy.
About the Author
Bruce Bruinsma has spent a career encouraging people to prepare for retirement through wise stewardship and consistent savings. Like Solomon's conclusions in the biblical book of Ecclesiates, there is more to God's plan for your life than money. Bruce joins with others as a Retirement Reformation Champion dedicated to reforming how Jesus followers view and live out the last decades of life. Finding Freedom with Faith plus meaning, purpose, joy and community.