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 this past weekend. 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.
By his own words, Perry’s self-confessed “obsession to do everything possible to reach 100,000 and beyond” cost him deeply. And it led him to do things he should not have done.
That’s why I’m writing this post.
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Read more button is not working, but the article is still available on Christianity Today here: http://www.christianitytoday.com/karl-vaters/2016/july/perry-noble-newspring-church-and-our-obsession-with-numbers.html
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Thanks for this blog. I am so sorry to hear about what happened to Perry Noble, but the Lord is bringing some important truths to light through it. I wonder if he knows that God is using his failures to build the kingdom.
… I don’t think I recognize that about my own life enough.
Appreciate you Karl! Thanks for all you do!!!