Former New Life Pastor to Start New Church Services Nearby

Brady Boyd was asked to resign from his role at New Life, but still feels ‘called to pastor.’

Brady Boyd, the former pastor of megachurch New Life Church in Colorado Springs, is planning to start a new Wednesday night church service in the city. He said he believes he is still “called to pastor” in Colorado Springs.

Brady Boyd / Video screenshot @Psalm 68 Ministries

He announced on social media that he would be hosting a church service on March 18 at the Phil Long Music Hall, including “worship, the Scriptures, prayer, communion and fellowship.” The music hall is less than 4 miles from New Life.

In June 2025 Boyd was asked to resign from New Life Church, where he had been the pastor since 2007, after it became clear he misled the congregation regarding his knowledge of former Gateway Pastor Robert Morris’s alleged abuse of Cindy Clemishire.

Boyd then announced in July that he and his wife had started Psalm 68 Ministries as a “ministry for widows, orphans, wounded pastors, and families of our fallen heroes.”

Boyd’s requested resignation from New Life and plans to start a new church service raise the question of accountability for his actions and a biblical restoration process to a position of church leadership.

When starting Psalm 68 Ministries, Boyd wrote on social media: “We plan on basing out of Colorado Springs and will be operating under the authority of the elders of Trinity Fellowship Church in Amarillo, TX. Ironically, the Lord led us there in the 1990’s [sic] when we had been spiritually bruised and needed healing. Once again, this beautiful congregation has provided us with an oasis of friendship and wisdom.”

It is unclear whether Trinity Fellowship Church in Amarillo is also overseeing the new church services being held by Boyd at Phil Long Music Hall. His announcement post indicates that he conferred with others before announcing the new plan. “After careful prayer and discussions with trusted counselors and friends, we feel led to start a Wednesday night service in Colorado Springs that will focus on some simple, but powerful ideas,” Boyd wrote.

Another pastor in Colorado Springs, Pastor Kelly Williams of Vanguard Church — a Southern Baptist congregation — told the Colorado Springs Gazette that he agreed with New Life’s decision to ask Boyd to resign and that he believes the two must reconcile before Boyd launches “any form of ministry in the shadow of the church he led.”

“Until he does so, it appears to me he is repeating a cycle he once condemned as unbiblical,” Williams said.

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“God may be in what Pastor Brady Boyd is doing but not how he is going about it, and he knows that. He has yet to show any sense of remorse or repentance for the role he played in Gateway, New Life, and the abuse of a minor,” he added.

MinistryWatch reached out to Darrell Bock, executive director for Cultural Engagement and senior research professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary, about Boyd starting a new church. He began by pointing out that discipline of a pastor must be based on more than a mere belief that a pastor has committed a wrongdoing in order to avoid slander and other problems.

However, if there is sufficient reason to act on a situation, he acknowledges “accountability in the church is important.”

“A healthy pastorate depends on character and credibility,” Bock said. “If there was a violation, discipline should be considered, allowing some time for reflection and indications of an understanding of the failure while moving toward restoration. The outcome should reflect a better ability to be discerning. These goals should determine the timing of any restoration to major responsibility. The length and manner would depend on the details. A willingness to be accountable to a restoration group would be one of those elements.”

He acknowledged that independent churches must be responsible for setting up some accountability for their pastors.

As MinistryWatch President Warren Smith says in his book “Faith-Based Fraud,” many of the megachurches in the United States today are nondenominational, and many have “almost no system for dealing with either doctrinal or behavioral errors.”

About accountability within independent churches, Bock said, “This is where independence can be a disadvantage if they do not want to be responsible to God and their members and have a mechanism for this. They need to have members in the group who are willing to follow where evidence goes and respond to it. For accountability to work all must be accountable to what the process represents.”

When asked about the dangers of a previously-disciplined pastor starting an independent church, Bock said, “It is always a problem when a figure who had authority acts on his own to establish a new work with questions about why he left his previous ministry. The danger here is real of being and acting independently without seeking ultimately to be accountable to God.”

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