Nine months after disgraced senior pastor Brady Boyd was terminated from New Life Church amid allegations he knew about sexual abuse committed by Robert Morris against 12-year-old Cindy Clemishire, and then flat-out publicly lied to his congregation about it, he has announced the next stages of his ministry.
Four weeks after his ousting, Boyd and his wife launched Psalm 68 Ministries, based in Colorado Springs and operating under the authority of the elders of Trinity Fellowship Church in Amarillo, TX. Trinity Fellowship Church is home to Jimmy Evans, who also knew about the molestation of Cindy Clemishire, according to court documents filed by Morris, despite his denials to the contrary.
Along with a weekly podcast he’s been doing since September, he recently invited friends, supporters, and community members to attend a service at the Phil Long Music Hall in Colorado Springs. This venue features a concert hall seating 500 people and a patio seating 1000 people.
“We’re going to study the scriptures, we’re going to worship together, we’re going to pray together, we’re going to come to the Lord’s table.”
In an Instagram post, Brady confirmed that he’ll be “preaching” at the event.
Boyd previously said on Facebook that despite his ignoble exit, “Pam and I are still called to pastor in Colorado Springs. We received this mandate 18 years ago, and the calling has only grown stronger.”
While Boys has denied to Church Leaders that the evening gatherings (which he plans to do for at least eight weeks) are a “church plant,” it has all the hallmarks of one, and there’s no reason to believe this won’t come to fruition by the end of the year, particularly when CL also noted:
In response to a request for comment about his departure from New Life, in particular how he would respond to people who question whether he should continue in ministry, Boyd said, “Everyone in my trusted circle of pastors and advisors agrees wholeheartedly that I am qualified for ministry.”
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The problem here, that many may be missing, is that it was handled not according to the commandments of God, but according to the commandments of men.
In scripture, when a man is sexually immoral it’s about the same as what we would now call statutory rape, regardless of the woman’s age. Notice in Deut. 22, he is put to death even when she consents. But the elders stood in front of the church and said that he claims he didn’t know she was 12, but that they believe he did. They’re implying that he wouldn’t have been removed from the ministry if she’d been an adult, and he’d only been covering up sin that by the commandments of men, and not the commandments of God, is deemed to be acceptable.
We constantly appeal to the commandments of men, and to secular law to determine what’s right and wrong, and then we are puzzled as to why the church is as messed up as it is. What part of secular law, and the standards thereof, should determine whether or not a man is qualified for the ministry? What part of secular law defines that which is sinful and that which is not? Should it not be God’s standards and His law that makes such a determination?
The elders certainly did the right thing by removing him, but they appealed to the wrong standards. Standing right up in God’s house telling Him that the standards of men, and not His own standards, will decide who is qualified to lead in His church, as well as who is to be a part of His church. How arrogant and prideful are we, if we try to tell Him who is and is not a part of His church, and what the qualifications for leadership should be?
I believe much of it is rooted in the fact that we just don’t really know and understand God’s standards, and very few, if any, churches or teachers have bothered with learning it. I’m not a teacher, nor am I qualified for it, but I can count myself among those who don’t understand it as well as I should. Reading and studying scripture for more than 40 years, but I myself don’t fully know and understand God’s standards pertaining to such matters, comprehensively. It’s long past time we paid more attention to it.
We’ve been battling the disastrous consequences of the sexual revolution for more than half a century. But we still haven’t bothered to study to show ourselves approved, to learn, understand, and know what God’s standards actually are. And we wonder why the battle is being lost. How smart are we?
I was thinking a few days ago, you know it goes back to before the boomers. Many men strayed in the war. Including my Grandpa. He was betrothed to Grandma at the time, but not yet married. But my Dad had a brother or sister in France that he’d never met. I’ve got an uncle or aunt in France, that I’ve never met. When Dad was very young, he said that he could remember, Grandpa and Grandma had discussed the matter. They gathered up money, he got on a plane, and went to France to see that she was provided for.
When they came back from the war, excuses were made. They thought they were going to die, and so on. And their children, the boomers, learned such excuses, and made their own. The truth is, sin goes all the way back to Adam. What we’re seeing is an exponential increase – birth pangs. Nowadays the commandments of men claim it’s good and healthy to be sexually immoral. And these are the same commandments of men that elders appeal to in determining whether or not a man is qualified for the ministry?
We’re not examining ourselves nearly as closely, carefully, and thoroughly as we should be. Nowhere near carefully enough.