When Faith Becomes a Business: Seeing the Church from the Inside
Wealthy Way
Ryan Pineda
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
After building a fast-growing nonprofit ministry, faith starts to look different.
Not weaker... just clearer.
From church culture and tithing to denominational history, authority, miracles, and the unsettling question of “How do I know I’m on the right road?”
This is an honest conversation about faith, doubt, structure, and what happens when you stop outsourcing your beliefs.
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| 0:00.0 | Faith-wise, it's been interesting because we run a nonprofit with 10 makers. And I know you've |
| 0:05.4 | done a lot on the faith side too. Yeah. And yeah, I mean, this is now our, we just finished our |
| 0:12.8 | second full year as a, you know, actual nonprofit and everything. And so, you know, with the nonprofit, |
| 0:18.3 | we, you know, got over 100 plus Bible studies going. We did, |
| 0:22.6 | man, at least like, man, eight or nine events, you know, between the summit, the workshops, |
| 0:28.2 | mission trips, kingdom nights. You know, we raised more money than ever before. Like, it was just a |
| 0:36.7 | great year in ministry, |
| 0:37.7 | but I will say it's now kind of made me look at the entire Christian world |
| 0:45.5 | from a ministry organization point of view. |
| 0:50.9 | And so I think, like, now, I don't know that it's a mistake. |
| 0:53.3 | It's just a realization of, like, how I think like now, I don't know that it's a mistake. It's just a realization of |
| 0:55.2 | like how the world of Christianity works from like the institutional point. Because like most |
| 1:05.9 | Christian, so I guess like I understand now how a church functions with giving and salaries and staff and how they use a tithe. |
| 1:15.5 | I understand how we function with how we do it and everything else. |
| 1:18.6 | And I think it's made me more cynical. |
| 1:22.1 | And I'm wrestling through what I think about that. |
| 1:27.2 | Interesting. Because I'm not here what I think about that. Interesting. |
| 1:28.3 | Because I'm not here to say we're better or worse or whatever else. |
| 1:34.0 | But like now looking at it like running a ministry, |
| 1:36.9 | I'm like organizationally and operationally when I see, |
| 1:40.3 | you know, |
| 1:41.1 | not doing what we could be doing. |
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