Stay Where God Plants You

Multiplication has a publisher, a conference circuit, and a vocabulary. Staying has almost none of that. Josh Crans, who pastors Providence Church in Coatesville, writes at Exponential that we have celebrated multiplication and relocation so loudly that we have undersold the faithfulness of remaining, and that deep roots, earned trust, and generational impact all require leaders who stay for decades.

there is no ideal place to serve Christ except the place He has called you

— Josh Crans, via Exponential

Small-town Iowa rewards tenure more than almost any context in America. Nobody trusts you in year two, and the funerals you preach in year nine are what buys you a hearing in year fifteen. Worth noticing where this argument came up: a publisher whose entire business is multiplication.