Perry Noble


Perry Noble is an American preacher, author, and the former senior pastor at NewSpring Church, a megachurch located in Anderson, South Carolina. His weekly sermons were watched by over 32,000 people at 11 satellite campuses across the state of South Carolina with an additional 7,200 viewers tuned in weekly via online live stream. He has gained notability as the senior pastor at the largest church in the South Carolina Baptist Convention and second fastest-growing church in the United States. Noble gained notoriety for controversial remarks made regarding the Ten Commandments during a Christmas Eve service at his church, as well as his forced removal from the church as pastor.
Perry started a new Church in Anderson in 2018 and opened as a church plant in January 2019 under the name Second Chance Church. He is also associated with Freedom Church in the United Kingdom.

Books

Perry Noble is the author of four books:
Perry Noble was born on June 24, 1971. Perry has revealed that his mother died of cancer when he was 12, and that this experience made him dislike hospital visits for a long time even after he became a pastor. His father was married several times. He married his former wife, Lucretia, in April 2000 and in June 2007 had a baby girl named Charisse.
In November 2017 Noble announced that his marriage was over.

Controversies

During his time at NewSpring Church, Noble was involved in several controversies.

Views on homosexuality

Noble has been associated with hateful comments regarding homosexuality:
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Racism

During a Christmas Eve service in 2014, Perry Noble sparked an incident regarding the use of what appeared to be the word nigger. NewSpring Church released a statement in response to allegations that Pastor Noble said the word nigger during his sermon saying,
Perry Noble was also quoted as saying ″I was also a racist. My grandparents used 'the n word' recreationally. In fact, most white people I knew did —and so I did too. I did not see black people as individual people with real hearts, real souls, real feelings and who really mattered to God — I saw them as a group of people who were different than me, thus allowing me to place them in a category and dismiss them as unimportant," said Perry. He continues, "But … something happened in me in 1990 that would begin to change the way I see people — I prayed to receive Christ in my life, which truly is the catalyst for the changing of my heart and mind on the issue of the Confederate flag," continued the megachurch pastor.″

Ten Commandments

Following a sermon Noble delivered on Christmas Eve, a controversy arose regarding his wording at the beginning of his message. He made a claim stating that there was no Hebrew word for "command," when in fact, there was. Much pressure was put on Perry Noble and on NewSpring Church for this mistake, to the point of a heated tweet on Noble's Twitter page. Noble later apologized on his blog for this tweet and his original mistake.

Removal

On July 10, 2016 NewSpring Church announced that Perry Noble had been removed as Senior Pastor, due to alcohol abuse and neglect of his family duties.

Divorce

On November 1, 2017, Noble released a statement on Faithwire announcing his divorce from Lucretia Noble after 17 years of marriage. He stated that, “After being married for 17 years I have found myself in a place I never imagined I would be — as no one who has ever been married ever dreams in a million years that their marriage will one day end in divorce.”

Publications

His book Overwhelmed deals with his struggles with mental illness.
Perry also authored Overcoming Anxiety released in 2019.