{"id":55143,"date":"2016-07-18T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/perry_noble_removed_as_pastor_at_newspring_ingreenville_sc_for_alcohol_addi\/"},"modified":"2016-07-18T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T16:00:08","slug":"perry_noble_removed_as_pastor_at_newspring_ingreenville_sc_for_alcohol_addi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55143","title":{"rendered":"Perry Noble removed as pastor at NewSpring in Greenville, SC for alcohol addiction issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 2,000 members made the warm walk across the NewSpring Church parking lot in Anderson for each worship service Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Few were fully braced for the news that awaited: Perry Noble, the only senior pastor the church has known, has been removed from his duties for personal issues related to alcohol by the church&#8217;s leadership team.<\/p>\n<p>Williamston Town Councilman Rockey Burgess said the news &#8220;did come as a shock&#8221; in the 9:15 a.m. service, even though recent rumors had prepared him to a degree.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the church isn&#8217;t made up of the preacher, and the church doesn&#8217;t worship the preacher,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The church is the people who go there, and we all love one another.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/2016\/07\/10\/perry-noble-announcement\/86915826\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 2,000 members made the warm walk across the NewSpring Church parking lot in Anderson for each worship service Sunday morning. Few were fully braced for the news that awaited: Perry Noble, the only senior pastor the church has known,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55143\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,42,54,86,168,419,435,154,184,177,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-south-carolina","category-alcoholism","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-evangelicals","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}