SOUTH CAROLINA
Christian Post
By Stoyan Zaimov , Christian Post Reporter | Aug 15, 2017
Former NewSpring Church senior pastor Perry Noble revealed in a Facebook video details about the sexual abuse he suffered as a child, which left him struggling with “soul destroying” shame.
“I am a victim of sexual abuse,” Noble said in the video, posted on Sunday.
“I remember like it was yesterday. It happened when I was about 5 years old. There was an older guy in the neighborhood” who coerced him, the former pastor revealed.
“The whole time it was going on, I knew it was wrong. It just felt wrong, but I felt helpless, and afterwards I felt hopeless. A few years later, it happened again, I was sexually abused by a different person,” he said, revealing that for “years and years I felt the chains of shame were wrapped around me.”
“I thought it was something I had caused, and because of that I held it inside and I didn’t tell anyone. As I look back now I see what was happening was that my soul was being destroyed through the chains of shame,” he said.
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