The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today owns and operates several successful

for-profit businesses from from livestock and agriculture, to publishing and digital media,

to real estate, and many others.

This has caused some to wonder, does a church focused on bringing people to Christ have any business getting

involved in business?

Are business ventures like these compatible with the mission of the church generally and

the founding principles of consecration specifically? the to discuss its very first consecration-based business ventures,

the literary firm and the United firm, or United Order.

Specifically, we're interested in the founding revelations that justify these ventures and how the principles

found in these have paved the way for the Church's very successful business

ventures today. I'm Scott Woodward and my co-host is Casey Griffiths and today we dive into our second episode of this series

Dealing with consecration and church finance now let's get into it. Hello Scott. What's going on? Casey Griffiths. Nothing much just

excited to talk about church finance. Church finance doesn't sound like the most

exciting topic.

Yeah, it feels like, hey guys, we're going to talk about, you know, fiduciary statements or things like that.

But church finance actually is sort of exciting and I got to tell you Scott I'm not a finance guy like

honestly my wife handles most of the she's the CFO I'm sort of like the big picture

person when it comes to you know our finances yeah my wife's the practical person but I do like to talk about

church finance it's weirdly inspiring and it's quite the hot topic in some circles today it is. Yeah. And this is why we wanted to do a whole series on it because

people are asking a lot of questions and we thought hey if that's where the interest is

let's dig it up and let's talk about it. Yeah I noticed that

60 minutes did like a whole piece on church finance and everything like that so

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