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Glenn Beck effect?
In 2005, he wrote that he had been a addict of pornography. This time, he said that porn was not the problem; it is alcohol addiction.
Hopefully he can come to a complete restoration.
“All men have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” Never heard of this guy.
Noble rescinds the Ten Commandments for 2015
When Tithing Comes With a Money-Back Guarantee
Hope Noble chooses Christ over addictive root soon.
All of us, at one point or another, struggle with addiction in one form or other (emotion, action, habit etc etc)
As God would have it, not a one of us are immune.
That’s too bad. I hope he recovers.
That's really amazing. They managed to keep it quiet for 10 days. When we had to remove a senior pastor, the action happened on a Friday, the deacons found out on Saturday, and it was announced to the congregation Sunday morning. Of course, a large number of the deacons' wives figured it out when the invites to the emergency meeting went out Friday evening, and word had leaked out to the informal leadership.
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Funny thing, I've talked with numerous Southern Baptist FReepers who have "explained" to me that Southern Baptists DON'T operate this way.
They have "informed" me that "all pastors have EQUAL power in the SBC" and there's "no such thing as an executive pastor -- the SBC President is just a powerless symbolic office with no authority". It's a "bottom-top" model rather than the Catholic Church's "top-bottom" model where the senior pastor of a congregation has the absolute authority to do whatever he wants with HIS church.
According to them, if the pastor of a congregation "went rogue", then the congregation THEMSELVES would vote to remove him and elect a new pastor. In the event he blatantly defies SBC rules/teachings, there's "nothing they can do until the next annual national conference", at which point the SBC nationally can simply vote to "disaffiliate" the local church if the congregation refuses to remove their pastor, and thus kick the church out of the SBC for having an embarrassing pastor that is not in line with the rest of the SBC -- but this is ONLY done as a "last resort" and is "extremely rare but it does happen once in a blue moon"
But, silly me, this article says the "NewSpring board of directors" got together at their regular meeting and voted to remove the "Senior Pastor" of that congregation, and "Executive Pastor Shane Duffey", who outranks Duffey, then fired him.
Who should I believe -- this article, or what Southern Baptist freepers claim about their church?
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
1 Peter 5:8
It's a good thing that there's an elder board (or whatever it is in this case), that has the authority and gumption to discipline their famous (infamous) pastor, and that he submitted to it.
Good that the board of directors acted in a biblical manner by removing a compromised leader....
I left a church once because the church leadership refused to make the senior pastor step down because he was obviously getting a serious case of dementia....
The final straw came when he married my daughter and keep calling her the wrong name during the ceremony....he knew her well...
We have been going there for five years, my daughter was heavily involved with children’s ministry....
It wasn’t like we walked off the street and asked for him to marry her...