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Dear Kingdom Builders,

"Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's."

Two thousand years later, money is changing again. Yes, it's going even more digital with the blockchain. And the question of whose image our money carries is becoming surprisingly interesting.

In 2025, Congress passed the GENIUS Act, creating the first national framework for a new kind of digital money called a stablecoin. By April of this year, the stablecoin market had already grown to about $317 billion.

So what exactly is a stablecoin?

It sounds technical, but the basic idea is familiar. Picture a church festival. You hand over twenty dollars, receive twenty dollars' worth of tokens, and use those tokens for the games, food, and, naturally, funnel cake. For a few hours, the festival has essentially created its own little economy.

A stablecoin works on a similar principle, only digitally and at enormous scale. You exchange dollars for digital tokens that live on a shared digital ledger, a record that can be verified without relying on one private database. Each token is designed to remain tied to the value of the US dollar.

Unlike the church-festival tokens, however, stablecoins can move around the clock over the internet, including across borders, without every transaction traveling through the traditional card and banking networks. The broader system, however, still depends on issuers, custodians, exchanges, and regulated financial institutions. But even still it is often faster and with fewer fees.

We’re already getting a window to how this may apply to the church.

There is already one private Christian company trying this out. According to the company, it's designed to move money to Christian churches, hospitals, schools, and missions around the world.

There's one feature that makes this one particularly interesting. Issuers hold reserves, often including short-term U.S. Treasuries, that can earn income, which at scale can become significant. This company says that it is directing all of that reserve yield is directed to a charitable fund rather than kept as issuer profit.

That particular stablecoin is only months old, its adoption remains to be seen, and it is a private venture.

Which returns us to where we started. Jesus asked whose image a coin carried. Two thousand years later, money keeps changing form. The question is not only who issues it or how it moves, but ultimately what human purposes its design serves.

\What we choose to point money toward is a question every generation has to answer for itself.

Have a blessed week!

Matt

For informational purposes only. Not financial, legal, tax, or any advice of any kind.

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