Two years after NewSpring Church in South Carolina lost their founding and senior pastor Perry Noble to alcohol abuse and other “unfortunate choices and decisions,” Jesus Christ is now listed as senior pastor over a new team-led church model in amended bylaws.
Teaching Pastor Clayton King says the new approach to leadership has made the megachurch healthier.
King, who was appointed interim senior pastor for a year at NewSpring shortly after Perry’s exit, also revealed in a recent Essential Church podcast that the church was $47 million in debt when Noble left. Since then the church has managed to cut that debt down to $36 million in less than two years.
“We are a true team approach to ministry now. I was senior pastor for one year but now our church has one senior pastor and we’ve literally in our new bylaws named Jesus Christ as our senior pastor. So we are structured differently now. It’s a true team approach and let me tell you, I love it,” King revealed.
The church is currently run by a team of four lead pastors, three teaching pastors including King, as well as 14 campus pastors.
When asked to explained how Jesus as senior…
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