July 11, 2016

I don’t want to pile on. Honest I don’t. So I pray this post doesn’t come across that way.

I was sad when I read the news about Perry Noble being asked to step down from NewSpring church. I still am. (If you haven’t heard about it, catch up here.)

I prayed for Noble, his family and the church. That was going to be it. I had no intention of commenting on it in any way. I don’t know Perry Noble and I’ve never been to NewSpring, so what business is it of mine? None.

Then I read Noble’s statement about why it happened. Not what others said about him – what Perry himself said was the reason for his problems.

While people are wringing their hands over his confessed abuse of alcohol (a problem, to be sure) it appears to be a symptom, not a cause.

Meanwhile, I’m afraid we’re going to miss what Noble himself said was the reason for his failure, because we don’t want to see it.