Pastor Perry Noble, who formerly led NewSpring Church in South Carolina, has officially launched Second Chance Church online, saying that he felt God gave him a second chance despite heavy criticism from others.
“Second chances are not just for some people, they are for all people,” Noble declared in a Facebook video on Sunday, preaching his first sermon under the title “So I Screwed Up, Now What?”
Noble explained that he is looking for a physical location for the church in Anderson, South Carolina, but in the meantime will be posting sermons and connecting with people online.
The pastor, who was removed from NewSpring last year following struggles with alcohol addiction and faced a further setback recently with news that he and his wife will be divorcing, revealed that he has received heavy online criticism from people arguing he should not be a minister again.
“There have been days when I have just felt down and defeated. People say ‘you shouldnt be in ministry anymore, you shouldn’t preach anymore,'” he said.
“There was one day in particular where I had taken a barrage of hate on Facebook,” he continued, noting that “middle aged white people”…
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