Perry Noble

Perry Noble (born June 24, 1971) 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 has recently gained notoriety for controversial remarks made regarding the Ten Commandments during a Christmas Eve service at his church.

Perry Noble is the author of three books:

• Unleash!: Breaking Free from Normalcy
• Overwhelmed: Winning the War Against Worry
• The Most Excellent Way to Lead

• Noble, Perry. Overwhelmed: Winning the War Against Worry. Lifeway Christian Resources. ISBN 978-1430032090. Retrieved 11 May 2015. 
• Noble, Perry (20 September 2012). Unleash!: Breaking Free from Normalcy. Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. ISBN 978-1414366791. Retrieved 11 May 2015. 
• "The Most Excellent Way to Lead". 

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 current wife, Lucretia, in April 2000 and in June 2007 had a baby girl named Charisse.

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

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,

In regards to your question about the ‘N’ word, Perry doesn’t use that word and doesn’t address anyone in his life by such a word. He did not use that word in his message and what you perceived as him doing so was [a] matter of words getting jumbled as can happen with anyone who is speaking.

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.″

Ten Commandments

Following a sermon Noble delivered on Christmas Eve, a controversy aroused 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.

Alcohol Abuse

On July 10, 2016 NewSpring Church announced that Perry Noble had been removed as Senior Pastor, due to alcohol abuse

His book Overwhelmed (2014) deals with his struggles with mental illness.