Advisors Need Advisors Too: Chris’s Role in Lifting Leaders Through Faith and Financial Strategy
Christopher Jacob
Welcome to a brand-new episode of Anchoring Hope with your host, David Mansilla. In today’s episode, we sit down with Chris, a man whose journey through finance and faith paints a powerful picture of what Christ-centered leadership can look like in the real world.
As a Certified Financial Planner® (CFP) since 1988, Chris has spent the last 38 years walking alongside over 500 individuals and corporate clients across the country. His mission has always gone beyond numbers—he’s helped clients accumulate, protect, and preserve not only their financial capital, but their intellectual capital as well.
After selling his successful financial practice, Chris co-founded NextPoint Solutions with Bob Strauss. Their purpose? To make an even bigger kingdom impact by equipping advisors and financial professionals with advanced life insurance strategies, AI-powered innovation, and Christ-honoring solutions. Their diverse team of advisors, planners, and attorneys helps firms scale their life insurance business—all without compromising their core mission.
In this episode, you’ll hear how Chris lives out servant leadership, responds to God’s call in every season, and believes in multiplying influence for God’s glory. His story is a reminder that your profession can become a platform for purpose—and that when you give God your yes, He multiplies it beyond what you could ask or imagine.
Faithful Transitions — When God Calls You to Shift Seasons
One of the most powerful parts of Chris’s story is how he navigated a major career transition with faith. After decades of building a thriving practice, Chris felt God prompting him toward something new. Letting go of a business you’ve built with your own hands isn’t easy—but obedience always brings greater fruit.
In Proverbs 3:5-6, we’re told, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” Chris trusted that still, small voice. Instead of clinging to the comfort of the known, he surrendered the success he had to make room for the new assignment God was preparing.
In founding NextPoint Solutions, Chris stepped into a different kind of leadership—one that wasn’t about building his name, but about empowering others. It’s a beautiful picture of kingdom transition: when one season ends, God births something even more impactful.
Are you sensing a shift in your own season? Don’t fear the unknown. When God redirects you, He’s not diminishing your purpose—He’s expanding it.
Multiplying Impact Through Servant Leadership
At the heart of Chris’s mission is a servant’s mindset. Instead of focusing solely on clients, he turned his attention to helping fellow advisors. This shift reflects Jesus’ model of leadership: empowering others to lead.
In Matthew 20:26-28, Jesus said, “Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant… just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve.”
Chris and his team at NextPoint now come alongside RIAs, broker-dealers, and financial professionals—not to take over, but to strengthen. They introduce advanced planning strategies, innovative tools, and support systems so leaders can focus on their core calling.
This is a challenge for us all: are we building walls or bridges? Are we empowering others, or just elevating ourselves?
True leadership doesn’t hoard influence; it multiplies it.
Innovation Rooted in Biblical Wisdom
A standout aspect of Chris’s vision is how he blends cutting-edge technology with timeless biblical values. By embracing AI and smart automation, his team helps others scale their life insurance business with efficiency—without losing the personal, values-driven approach that sets Christian leadership apart.
Proverbs 24:3-4 reminds us, “By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures.”
Chris doesn’t view innovation as a threat to biblical stewardship—he sees it as a tool. When technology is used wisely, it can free leaders to do more of what matters: serving people, building trust, and pointing others to Christ.
The key is staying anchored in biblical wisdom while moving boldly into new territory.
Keeping the Genius—Letting God Handle the Rest
One of the most powerful quotes from Chris is:
“At NextPoint we help you grow your life insurance business by adding industry-leading advanced planning strategies and AI inventiveness. Watch your life business soar without changing a thing. Keep the genius and delegate the rest to us.”
This reflects a powerful spiritual principle: God didn’t ask you to do everything—He asked you to be faithful with your part. As leaders, we burn out when we try to carry what only God can manage. Chris’s model encourages advisors to focus on what they do best—and let partners like NextPoint handle the rest.
It’s a picture of divine delegation. Romans 12:6 says, “We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us.”
You don’t have to be everything to everyone. Just steward your gift, and trust that God will bring the right people, tools, and opportunities to surround you.
Leading With Hope, Building With Purpose
Chris’s story reminds us that leadership is not about titles—it’s about trust, transition, servanthood, wisdom, and faith. Whether you’re just starting or are decades into your journey, this episode of Anchoring Hope will inspire you to step into every season with boldness and humility.
Let God anchor your vision. Let Christ shape your legacy. And let your leadership be a light in the marketplace—for His glory alone.
Written by Jovilyn Dela Cruz
“True leadership is not about control—it’s about calling. When you trust God with the shift, He multiplies the mission beyond your imagination.”
