Perry Noble Thoughts...

Ran across some thoughts from Perry Noble, Senior Pastor at New Spring Church... thought they were interesting...

* We can’t lead publicly if we aren’t yielded to God privately.
* Do people leave your services saying, “That was a great service.”? Or does God say, “Wow that was a great service.”?
* Satan doesn’t want to split your church—he wants to spilt your staff.
* God most often puts his most powerful gift in his weakest vessels.
* It’s not a bad thing when people leave your church.
* You don’t need to close the back door to the church. The church is a body. If you close the back door to your body… (well... you know). Sometimes an enema is the best thing that could happen to a church.
* People can say what they want about your church but no one can deny the presence of God.
* We don’t want to build a monument and become a museum. We want to continue to be a movement.
* Without Him, we suck…and you do too.
* ABOUT THEIR MUSIC: Yes it’s loud and we like it that way. Some of our senior citizens bring and wear their own earplugs.
* If God tells you to say “balls” in church then say it. Everybody will love it…well, the men will love it. The women who buy their sweaters at Cracker Barrel will hate it.
* Know who sets the rules for me and my family? ME. If you don’t do it someone else will and it will kill you.
* I believe there’s been a major breakdown in communication between the church and Jesus.
* The communication breakdown is this: instead of asking Jesus to build HIS church, we’ve been asking him to build OUR church.
* If you think you’re perfect and your poop don’t stink, God can’t use you.
* I believe that every church in America is one or two changes away from doubling in size.
* Every denomination in America for the past 30 years has been declining. If that was you’re money you’d be doing something about it.
* You will never be comfortable hearing the voice of God if you’re not comfortable with change.
* When’s the last time you went and bought an organ music CD and played it in your car? (So why do churches have organs?)
* Everybody here can look at another church and call the change that church needs to make….but can you do it for your own church?
* How many of you would be willing to give your life for your kids/grandkids to come to know Christ? Okay….how many would be willing to give up your style of music to save your kids/grandkids? (Ouch!)
* If what’s going on in your church is manageable then God’s not there. You can’t manage a move of God.
* I’ve always thought it was weird that people plan revivals.
* Don’t ever let the money drive the decision. Let the voice of God drive the decision.
* If it’s God’s will... then it’s God’s bill.
* Pastor, your job when it comes to youth ministry: make sure they have enough money.
* Why do so many teenagers show up to our church? We spend money on them.
* We’ve got to get out of the business of competing with one another (other churches) and instead start completing one another.
* When you pay attention to a jackass, you can’t cast vision.
* The jackass in the church is the person who always screams, “I want to go deeper.”
* You’re only as deep as the last person you served.
* You wanna go deep? Let’s check your giving record and see how deep you really are.
* The people who say, “Y’all are just into numbers,” are the people who have no numbers.
* The reason I’m obsessed with numbers is because I was one of those numbers.