Stop Trying to Make Impact

This isn't about metrics the UN will give you grants for, it's about your soul

August 2, 2025
Gary Sheng

I need to confess something.

For years, I nudged people away from Christ. I encouraged them to "make their own meaning" and find whatever way they can to “make impact.” I was wrong.

I’ve come to learn: If you're caught up in United Nations SDGs or ESG frameworks or any other "social impact" work, you're getting pulled away from God's calling. You're literally aiding and abetting the devil.

I know this sounds harsh. It needs to.

The social impact space is a demonic energy trap. People spend decades in democracy reform, nonprofit consulting, impact investing — burning through foundation grants while accomplishing nothing.

It makes sense that nothing is accomplished. These organizations oppose God's will—any mention of God will get you blacklisted from the polite society of the UN Climate Week crowd.

And you can’t oppose God’s will while also trusting that God will provide for your true calling.

And God would not put you in an impotent calling!

Worse than that, it corrupts the very way we think and talk about good work. When someone says they want to "make impact" or "change the status quo," those words—if you are sufficiently awakened—are tied to deception and impotence because they've been hijacked by deceivers, pretenders, or people who have themselves been deceived.

When you read the Bible through the Holy Spirit - not through the devil - it becomes clear that we're called to make disciples and serve what God loves. Not chase metrics that sound impressive to secular funders instead of asking how Christ is calling you to serve.

Be and pursue what will save your soul.

We are saved by grace through faith. And through loving what God loves and hating what God hates, good works (that God deems as good works) will flow from us.

But the social impact space teaches you to love what sounds good to atheists or satan worshippers and hate what makes them uncomfortable… the TRUTH.

Stop chasing grants from people who are either completely impotent because they are naive to how God’s reality actually works, or worse, complicit in the operation of sex trafficking networks. And instead, start trusting that the Creator of the universe can provide for the work He's actually called you to do.

I'm sorry I led people away from the divine path. I'm done with that.

I pray that you receive God's love so fully that you devote your full self to loving what He loves and serving how He wants you to serve.