What if the goal wasn’t simply to leave your children an inheritance—but to teach them how to build, lead, invest, and steward something together?

In this message, John shares the vision behind a 100-Year Plan for a 1,000-Year Family: creating a family culture designed to last far beyond a single generation.

Instead of wealth being divided and eventually disappearing, families can intentionally teach the next generation how to work together, make decisions together, build together, and steward resources for those who come after them.

That means creating structures for shared leadership, developing committees, making investments, giving family members meaningful responsibilities, and teaching children that what the family builds isn’t simply theirs to inherit—it’s theirs to steward and grow.

The vision is bigger than John and Julie. It’s bigger than their children or even their grandchildren.

It asks a much bigger question:

What could we build today that would still be impacting our family 1,000 years from now?

This sermon explores what it means to think generationally, develop future leaders within your own family, and create a legacy that isn’t just about passing down money—but passing down the wisdom and structure needed to steward it well.