It’s not all that clever or funny, but I see what he’s getting at. Prostitutes get paid to make people feel good. Prophets speak the truth in love, no matter how good or bad it makes us feel, and do not change the message because of money.

Noble does a pretty good job at explaining it on his blog. It’s a shame you misunderstood(?) him. (again)

It’s just that PN so often throws prostitution charges around, but they always apply to other pastors and their motives, never to him.

It is to the conference’s credit that they provide this material online, but you do have to pay if you want the benefit of a personal audience with PN.

(Seems like there might be a little parable about multisite in here somewhere. Why not just put it all online and make the whole thing free? Perhaps you wouldn’t do that if you thought there’s a benefit to being in the same room with the speakers.)

Having left by the ‘back door’ of NS, I guess I know what I am, now. Dang…

But that’s not the point.

I’m saying that Duncan’s argument that Noble is a pastor “who makes people pay him for sharing his biblical wisdom and insights” is obviously false.

If anything, Noble has gone out of his way to make his messages available to the public for free through podcasts, live online services, and weekly posted video messages.

Apparently somebody paid him. True or not?

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was somehow a website that showed what Perry Noble said at Catalyst that was freely accessible from anywhere in the world with internet access?

Oh wait. Didn’t you just post that link?

Since when do you have to pay Noble to hear his insight?

Compare this approach wiht the Together for the Gospel gathering every other year. They preach the Gospel, study the Gospel, motivate people through the Gospel, teach about the Gospel, and are united on the Gospel. For example, in the last one….this was some of the line up.

THabiti: THe Gospel and Race
Sproul: the curse motiff on the GOspel
Piper: Suffering and hte Gospel
Mohler: penal substitionalry atonement
Dever: What happens when you add to the GOspel
Mahaney: Pastoral implications of the GOspel
McArthur: Total Depravity and the GOspel.
Duncan: Systematic theology and hte Gospel.

which one is truly Gospel centered?

We are preachers and prophets not prostitutes. We don’t get paid for a service that makes people feel good.

A prostitute is for sale…they get paid for a service in order to make someone feel better about themselves. Many pastors today are simply prostitutes–for sale

Are you going to be motivated by money (thus becoming a prostitute, not a prophet)

But remember, Sara, “his biblical wisdom and insights exceed his years.”

So whatever they paid was certainly worth it.

(It would be interesting to ask PN some other time how he would describe a pastor who makes people pay him for sharing his biblical wisdom and insights.)