{"id":55144,"date":"2016-07-18T16:15:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T16:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ct_how_perry_nobles_alcohol_firing_by_newspring_compares_to_other_churches\/"},"modified":"2016-07-18T16:15:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T16:15:26","slug":"ct_how_perry_nobles_alcohol_firing_by_newspring_compares_to_other_churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55144","title":{"rendered":"(CT) How Perry Noble&#39;s Alcohol Firing by NewSpring Compares to Other Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The church\u2019s executive pastors met with Noble \u201cover the course of several months\u201d\u009d to discuss their concerns about his dependence on alcohol, which eventually resulted in his removal.<br \/>\n\u201cIn my opinion, the bible (sic) does not prohibit the use of alcohol, but it does prohibit drunkenness and intoxication,\u201d\u009d Noble wrote to his congregation of 18 years. \u201cI never had a problem drinking alcohol socially, but in the past year or so I have allowed myself to slide into, in my opinion, the overuse of alcohol.<br \/>\n\u201cThis was a spiritual and moral mistake on my part,\u201d\u009d Noble wrote, \u201cas I began to depend on alcohol for my refuge instead of Jesus and others.\u201d\u009d<br \/>\nNoble\u2019s addiction\u201d\u201dand his church\u2019s concern\u201d\u201dare not new. Nearly one in five pastors report that they have struggled with addiction to alcohol or prescription drugs, according to a 2013 survey by Barna Group.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/gleanings\/2016\/july\/how-perry-noble-alcohol-firing-by-newspring-church-compares.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The church\u2019s executive pastors met with Noble \u201cover the course of several months\u201d\u009d to discuss their concerns about his dependence on alcohol, which eventually resulted in his removal. \u201cIn my opinion, the bible (sic) does not prohibit the use of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55144\">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":[48,39,42,54,86,175,168,419,104,435,154,184,177,129,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55144","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-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-evangelicals","category-health-medicine","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55144","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=55144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}