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I am a 35 year old husband of one wife and father of 3 energetic boys. I am a church planter/pastor in a small town in NW Minnesota trying to figure out how to follow Jesus and lead others to do the same.
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Francis Patton wrote of A.A. Hodge:
“Few men have the courage to seek obscurity for the sake of its advantages, but there can be no doubt of the intellectual advantages of a quiet country charge. When i hear men complain of the lack of stimulus in a rural parish, or find them longing to preach to audiences more cultivated and worthy of their talents, I feel disposed to think that the poor quality of their intellectual fabrics is due not so much to lack of proper appliances, but rather to a dearth of raw material. Many a man will tell you that he owes all that he afterward became, to the circumstance that, under God, he enjoyed the quiet rural solitude, and had opportunity of uninterupted thought and reading.”
This insight was an encouragement to me to move from a large city/suburban charge back to a small town pastorate in East Tennessee.
Good for you in your move to a rural church. May God shape you powerfully.