Ep 178: Church Planting Without A Parachute

"Can you imagine moving across the country to be with your kids and then starting a church? That’s just what Robbie and Nancy Boyd did. Today we meet with Robbie and discuss his church plant in NC."

We talk with Robbie Boyd about how God used an unexpected tug toward a church door to reshape his faith, his family, and his future in ministry. We also get real about the pressure of church planting, the need for spiritual maturity over head counts, and creative ways to help people experience the Word of God.

• Robbie’s salvation story and the road from wandering to deep church involvement
• Serving in multiple ministries and the growing desire to church plant
• Moving from California to North Carolina during COVID and watching God redirect plans
• Why church planting feels like jumping without a parachute and why calling matters
• Measuring growth by spiritual maturity rather than attendance
• Acts 2:42 as a simple blueprint for a healthy church
• Pastoral boundaries, leadership friction, and the spiritual warfare behind it
• Plays on Word Theater as a word-for-word Bible teaching and evangelism tool
• Giving invitations without assuming who is saved and who isn’t
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Pastor Robbie's church: https://www.calvarybiblefellowshipnc.org/

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Transcript

Tugging Toward A Church Door

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Lord, you know. You're now listening to play is the best. I used to drive by this big church on my way to work every single day. There came a time when I just started feeling this tugging to go into this church. It almost felt physical, but that church happened to be called Calvary Chapel Downey. And I went home and told my wife about it, and she said, well, you know, let's give it a try and see what happens. We went and we never looked back. It just, we actually just dove in. We had a Bible study in our house within like a couple of weeks of going, and we just started getting into every ministry we could think of.

Welcome To Plays On Word Radio

SPEAKER_00 1:01

Hello, and welcome to Plays on Word Radio, where we discuss, analyze, work, and play on the Word of God. Thank you for joining us on this excursion today. Let's join Pastor Teddy, also known as Fred David Kenny Jr., the founder of Plays on Word Theater, as he does a deep dive into the Word of God.

SPEAKER_02 1:22

Welcome, uh, Robbie Boyd. I call him Bobby. You're marked down as Bobby on my all my text messages. I'm like, Bobby, Bobby Boyd. Sounds like a superhero, man. But yeah, man, we want to welcome you to Plays on Word Radio. You are a dear brother of mine that is part of our Calvary Chapel network here. And I met you here in North Carolina, but you're actually from I guess out in California. And you and Robbie, I'll call you Robbie for the in-if I call you Bobby and slip, it's okay. People know, but yeah, Robbie is the uh is the pastor of Calvary Bible Fellowship in North Carolina. What is a town? It's Pine Pine Level. Yeah. Pine Level, North Carolina. Tiny little spot. Yeah, okay. And you are in the beloved position that we are with Calvary Southport to a certain extent, from being a church plant, like a a fairly new fellowship within the last two years, I guess. Yep. And that comes with a whole host of challenges. Sometimes I feel like it's the Wild West. Yeah. You know. But so how do you end up in North Carolina? Tell me about California. Let's go back, man.

Saved At Harvest Then All In

SPEAKER_02 2:49

Let's go back. Let's go back.

SPEAKER_01 2:50

Yeah. Grew up in California. Got saved in 1997 at a harvest crusade. Actually, grew up in church, but really got saved in 1997 at a harvest crusade with Great Glory. My wife and I found ourselves down on the field giving our lives to Christ. 97. 97. Which which which which crusade was that? That was the Harvest Crusade, Great Glory. In in Anaheim? In Anaheim, that's right. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 3:16

Great.

SPEAKER_01 3:17

And yeah, so we we found ourselves down on the field, and it wasn't actually till 2004 that we started going to church. So there was quite a few years where we were just wandering in the wilderness, I guess you could say. 2004. Crazy story. I used to drive by this big church on my way to work every single day. And hard to explain, but I just kept there there came a time when I just started feeling this tugging to go into this church. And I was the only one in the car. I drive myself to work. And I would feel this tugging. It almost felt physical, hard to explain. But that church happened to be called Calvary Chapel Downing. And I went home and told my wife about it. And she said, Well, you know, let's give it a try and see what happens. We went and we never looked back. It just, it was like we were instantaneously, we we actually just dove in. We we had a Bible study in our house within like a couple of weeks of going. And we just started getting into every ministry we could think of. And it was crazy because they had a rule that you couldn't have a Bible study at your house for six months until you were attending the church. But we we we didn't know that there was a rule. So when they found out we had a Bible study, like, oh, we we need to come and talk to you guys. But it it was it was a pretty, pretty amazing. Got involved in just about every ministry there was. We were in children's ministries for I think close to nine years serving with them and had a home Bible study at our house for about nine years, led a couple of mission trips to Russia. Uh, I I was overseeing the Christian Essentials Ministry. So we we did a lot in California. And eventually I just started getting this urge to start church planning. And when I started doing that, there was a little church plant in Long Beach called Refuge Long Beach. And uh they were an offshoot of Long Beach, or I'm sorry, Hunt Refuge in Huntington, which is Bill Welsh's church. So some of your viewers might might have heard of him. And so we started going there and got involved. That's where I first became a pastor. I was an assistant pastor on staff with and just really felt now how we ended up in California or in North Carolina.

SPEAKER_02 5:35

Well, who's who was pastoring the the one in uh the downy?

SPEAKER_01 5:38

It was that that was Pastor Jeff. That that was before that was before Art Reyes. Yeah, that was pastor Pastor Jeff Johnson. He was one of the original pastor, one of the original Calvary guys. So if you have, I think if you have that book Harvest, he he's in there.

SPEAKER_02 5:52

Yeah, his program used is is on the the bridge radio in New Jersey, New York area. And I remember listening to his program. Yeah, man. Awesome, awesome.

SPEAKER_01 6:02

Yeah, yep. So he was uh, and then when he he he passed away, he went to heaven a couple of years ago, but Art Reyes took over Downey back there. They're doing really well, so yeah, so they're they're they're they're still growing, which is awesome.

COVID Move Sparks A Church Plant

SPEAKER_01 6:17

But but we came out to North Carolina to we we chased our kids out here. They moved out here, and we said, you know what, we want to be near our grandkids out there, and our kid, excuse me, our kids are moving out there, so it was COVID. We were at home, and uh, we just said, let's just do it. So we we just did it. We had no idea, we didn't know anybody, we didn't know what was gonna happen. I I didn't I didn't come here to plant a church, you know. That was never my intention. God just has, you know, God, God is gonna have his way, he's gonna have his way. Yeah, and and so yeah, that was uh a pretty amazing thing.

SPEAKER_02 6:56

So you just came out and you were like, man, I'm just gonna start a church. I'm gonna start a Bible study or start something.

SPEAKER_01 7:05

You know what? No, you know what? I I came out here, I'll tell you what, I came out here with the attitude of I've been involved in so much ministry already that I'm ready to just take a break. I'm ready to just sit, I don't need to do nothing.

SPEAKER_02 7:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:19

I I I was like, you know what, let everybody else do it. I've already done my share. I've I've paid my two bucks. Let somebody else do it.

SPEAKER_02 7:25

And God's like that's a typical response that is, man. I can tell you I've sat in that chair, and I know many people, ironically, that are in ministry right now that have sat in that chair and like, you know what, I'm gonna sit in the back. I don't want anybody, I don't want to, I don't even want to interact with it. I just want to go and be fed. And and that isn't that is a season for people, man.

SPEAKER_01 7:45

It is, but you know what happens when you do that, and you would know this if you've done it. God doesn't let you just sit idly. You you start to sit idly, and that that desire, it doesn't leave you. Yeah, and and and then and then you know it, and if you're not careful, you start picking on the church that you're at because you're like, Well, I I could be doing this and I could be doing this, I could make this better, and you got to be careful with that. But you know what that is? That's that's God moving you out of that comfort zone and saying, No, no, the reason why you're thinking these things is because I've got you a plan for you to do this, yeah. And no, and you know, no matter how hard it is to do it, and it is, it's difficult. I can't imagine not doing it, if that makes any sense. It's like I I I would tell people if if if you don't sense a call to church plant, don't do it because it's the hardest thing in the world you're ever gonna do. You don't do it unless unless you know God's in it, don't do it.

SPEAKER_02 8:42

Yeah, man. And people, the funny thing is how people think you're crazy, and even well-meaning Christians can cast can uh help cast doubt. Yep, and you you you really do have to be, you know, it's it's that calling. It's like, look, if I don't do this, I'm gonna go nuts. I I have to do it. I know, listen, I know I'm jumping off of I feel like I'm jumping off a cliff without a parachute. That's exactly right, you know. But guess what? That's what God told me to do, and trusting God. So I'm gonna jump off this cliff without a parachute, and God's gonna find a way to either have me land, or either way, it's all good.

SPEAKER_01 9:19

We're gonna you know it's true there you you do have weeks where you're just like, what am I doing? Why am I doing this? And God's just continue. I always fall back on Jeremiah. That's that's like my go-to, man. Yeah, because I'm like, why am I doing this? And God's like, hey, you know, you he tells what do you tell Jeremiah? It's like you can't even run with you can't even run with these guys. How are you gonna run with these guys? I'm paraphrasing, but you know, it's like you can't do the small stuff, how are you gonna do the big stuff? And it's like, okay, God, this is on you. I'm just gonna give it to you. Yeah, but but yeah, he's he has taught me a lot in the last year and a half, close to year and a half. Well, it's a year and a half since we planted the church. And you know, and we're starting to grow, you know, we're seeing a little bit of growth going on. Interesting that we've we've actually had a lot of growth spiritually. That's the kick, man. Yeah, even more so than how many people. I don't know. You you can't you can't you can't tell how your church is grown by people. You could have all the people in the world, but still be a spiritually immature church, you know.

Why Only The Called Should Plant

SPEAKER_01 10:24

And we've uh I've adopted the philosophy, which is what I grew up with in Calvary Downey is Acts 242, man. We're doing Acts 242, and we're doing those four things and and just staying with them the the word, prayer, fellowship, communion, keeping those things in in check and seeing a lot of growth. And so just spiritually speaking, so that's that's been really that's been amazing. Because the area that we're in here is uh, and not to put anybody down, I don't want to pick on any other churches here. We are in the Bible Belt, yeah, but you'd be surprised at how few people know their Bibles in the Bible Belt. So it's uh it's an interesting dynamic coming to an area where everybody's religious, everybody goes to church. Not a lot of people know their Bibles. And so, and we came out here thinking, oh, there's gonna be a Calvary in every corner, because that's how it is in California. We were we were surprised there wasn't. And so when God called me to plant, he's like, You gotta plant a Calvary. We need some, you know, we do have one. There's one in Clayton, which is probably the nearest one to us, but it's like, hey, we need we need more, we need we need more Bible teaching.

SPEAKER_02 11:33

I share, I shared an exact the exact same conversation you had with the Lord. I was like, Lord, really you got a church on every corner here, man. Do you really? Are you sure, Lord, you're calling you're calling me down here? I mean, we'll and yeah, it's there's there's a church on every corner, and I'm not knocking, I don't want to knock any other churches or anything like that because they are doing some some some really knockout work some in certain some areas, but there is also I've noticed that there is a hunger for people that will just give me the give me the meat of the word, man. Give me some food. I don't listen, I don't need you know, don't give me the some appetizer and a refreshment or what is it, continental breakfast. You know, you get a couple of eat you get a bagel and an orange juice. Nah, man, I want some eggs, I need some some some bacon or I need some protein, man. Give me the protein of the word. Yeah, we're not good, we're not good Jews. We eat bacon. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but hey, I actually my buddy Scott Schwartz, man, he's a messianic Jew. Yeah, but amazing to me, he he he was allowed to eat bacon. I don't know if they were like on the liberal side of things. I don't I don't know. That was that was weird to me.

SPEAKER_01 12:46

Yeah, my my grandfather was Jewish, so I'm I'm I'm a quarter Jew. Okay, like uh, but my the he he didn't follow the the Jewish, he ate bacon, and then my mom, my mom ate bacon and I ate bacon, so I'm not good Jews.

SPEAKER_02 13:02

Yeah, I grabbed a baby Christmas. See, that's that's funny, man. That to me, that's that's classic right there. But okay, so yeah, man, you're out here and you got the the church planning.

Acts 2:42 And Bible Hunger

SPEAKER_02 13:14

One of the thing one of the things that the Lord has really shown me, or I should I should say the one of the things that have surprised me, and I don't know if you have you have run into this yet, but I've had to I've had to set some some boundaries as far as you know being the pastor of the church. And I've been a little bit surprised that some people have what is the word I'm looking for, just not really on the same page. And you know, I take ownership for not being completely I I I have to do a better job to be clear on listen where the boat is going. Yeah, and I and I am not the you know, I'm not the boss of everything. The Lord is the boss, but if I don't do what he tells me to do, I he takes me to the woodshed, man. And it's like yeah, uh, you know what I mean? It's like he really is like, listen, you need to take care of this and take care of that. And I'm like, if I don't take care of it, I'm the one who pays.

SPEAKER_01 14:14

It's uh it's interesting that you mentioned that. I think one of the things we we tend to run into, and and I do see it a little bit out here, coming into an area where there's not a lot of Calvary. So there's, you know, we have the distinctives, right? So we we kind of know how Calvary works, and and and and that's not to put Calvary above any other church, it's just a church, and and we're non-denominational and we have certain things. And you come into an area where there's people who have grown up with so with different types of church government and different ways of doing things, and so you are gonna probably run into this. Sometimes you're gonna run into this friction. Now, part of that is just human nature. People, people just they want that power or whatever they, you know. Oh, and and it's true that if if a pastor is is there are always gonna be people, and I'm not saying that this is every congregation, but there's always gonna be a sect of people who will look at a pastor and think, who's this guy? You know, and so you're you're always gonna get that kind of stuff. And they did that with Paul too. I mean, so it's not it's not a new thing, but but you know, you're gonna you're there's gonna be people that are gonna think, oh, they can do it better, or we've always done it this way. And and they're not looking for that fresh vision, they're just looking for the same old, same old. Yeah. I had a I had a good friend in California, he went to Idaho and to not to plan a church, but to take over a church. And he went with this great expectation, we're gonna do Calvary way, all these things. And he ended up coming back because you know, he had people out there saying, Well, this isn't how we do it. And he's like, and this is our church. And he's like, wait a minute, this is God's church. Yeah, this isn't your church. I mean, you come to this church, you're part of this church, but this is God's church, and so yeah, I think you you do run into those things. Um, I haven't seen that so much yet because we're so small, we haven't, but it is something I'm I'm cognizant of, you know. And I think it's why you it's it's probably why you need a good board, you know. You need to you need to have strong leadership to deal with these things when they when they do come up.

SPEAKER_02 16:17

Yeah, yeah, because it it can really be discouraging that uh let me just say that it can be very discouraging. And and the other thing is when people I don't know why it's okay to not give the pastor the benefit of the doubt or just let you know to just let the you know you get upset. Listen, if you have if you if somebody gets upset at the pastor and they're and somebody who's serving in ministry who gets upset at the pastor is like, oh, I'm not gonna be there Sunday, and then just leaves the church. How about if I did that? Yeah, how about if I as the pastor, somebody somebody crossed me slightly, and therefore I'm not showing up Sunday. I it's the most foreign thing for me. I like uh I really so that's yeah, I'm dealing with some stuff like that, and just it's it's very strange to me. Yeah, and it it's difficult.

SPEAKER_01 17:10

And it it is, yeah, it is, and and it's crazy, Meg, because you got it's part of the warfare, you know, because you you've got people's there's a there's a spiritual component to it, yeah, that that is not there with maybe a secular job. Absolutely, you're right. You know, so there's there's gonna be the then sometimes the enemy he knows what buttons to push, he he's gonna get the right people in the right place to say the right things, and you know what it always happens, you know, five minutes before we're getting up to to teach or preach. Yeah, and that's when your mind is just like, but then you have to face that person and share God's word with them, you know.

SPEAKER_02 17:48

Yeah, you're you know, you're absolutely right. And I I see there's a definitely a spiritual aspect, and I can look and I can see I look to see where the enemy has been successful on me in any kind of way. It trying to influence, pushing to see where there's weakness. Uh, but I can also see how he has influenced certain certain people. I'm like, oh, for crying out loud, really? Like, wow, like you you're fall, you're falling for the enemy's getting his he really got you with that one. That's right. So, anyway, that's enough of the complaint section

Pastoral Boundaries And Spiritual Warfare

SPEAKER_02 18:21

of this. Um the welcome to pastoral complaints. That's right. No, but overall, uh, I'm really excited that you have have planted, you know, you're doing your thing, and I just pray that the fellowship there would continue to grow. It's fun for me in the sense that we're not a gigantic congregation at all right now. Uh the Lord has has, it seems like he's handpicked specific people and bringing certain people in and raising he's raising people up right now because we don't have you know, we don't have elders, deacons, anything yet. It's it's wild west, man. It's it's a church plant. And you know, I know from my Calvary training, being in Calvary Chapel, that you don't lay hands on people quickly. That's right. You don't just go, oh, you've you've been with us since the beginning. We're just gonna lay hands on you and make you an elder or what no, you don't do that. Right. The Lord raises people up, that's right, and the Lord works through those people, and the pastor recognizes is to write the leadership is supposed to recognize, oh, okay, Lord, I get it. The Lord, Lord, you're putting this person on my heart, you know. Okay, chapter six, man. That's it, man. So you know, we're not we're not there yet right now, but the Lord is bringing people one by one. He's bringing people that that he has called us to minister to. Amen. And I distinctly remember him putting on my heart, can you minister to who I bring through the door? And not be not be concerned with how many people I bring through the door. Can you minister to who I bring through the door? And I'm like, Lord, I'm gonna do my best in the power of your spirit. I don't care who you bring through the door, Lord, but if you do bring somebody through the door, then help me to minister to them how you would have me, Lord. I just, you know, that's really the mentality, and I hope that never changes.

SPEAKER_01 20:12

Yeah, it's funny you say that. I I've made it a challenge. If if I only have two people to preach to, I'm gonna preach like there's a hundred. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:20

Well, hey, just to do

Bible Drama As Evangelism Tool

SPEAKER_02 20:22

it, man. That's actually a good tra uh transition here because I've learned to do that from doing the plays that we do. Yes. The the doing the you know, our plays, we've done the plays in front of packed full houses, and we've done them in front of three people. Yeah. And if you were just watching the play and you couldn't see the audience, you would have no idea how many people are in the audience because it's it's brought the same, the same horsepower. That's right, you know, the same type of attitude. And I, you know, I I really learned that doing fellowship of Christian athletes 20 20 20 some years ago, where you know, one one week we'd have a full classroom of kids, and then the next week we'd have like two or three kids, and the next week we'd have full classroom, and so you can't judge your success on how many kids show up. That's right. It's whether or not you know you show up and the Lord helps you. That's that's really the benchmark there. So you had the opportunity to see one of the plays on Word Productions. You saw our Pete play in Clayton of all places. Yep. And any any thoughts? Like just uh off the top of your head, what you know.

SPEAKER_01 21:41

So so my wife and I were there. Uh yeah, shout out to you.

SPEAKER_02 21:44

What is your wife's what's your wife's name?

SPEAKER_01 21:46

Nancy. Nancy, my wife, right? Yeah, that's right. We were there with a couple of uh a couple from our church, Jason and Ashley were there with us, and they're praying about starting a marriage ministry. Nice, so we all went, yeah, so we all went together, and boy, all us were just blown away. Just amazing. Because you know what it does? It brings it to life. It's like you read it, you teach it, you preach it, but then you you see it. And it's just and and and you know I know I know Calvary Chapel is supposed to be, you know, and we don't ever talk about emotion and everything like that. But you know, we're human. And sometimes when you see it, yeah, it does, it does bring an emotion that that you're like, you know, it's like, you know, these guys have emotions. Peter had emotions. And you know when he saw when he saw Jesus doing these things and and when Jesus, you know, when Jesus like, hey, I want you to put the net on the other side, he's like, ah, you know, we've been doing this all night. You know, just that that little bit of frustration there. But okay, I'll I'll do I'll do what you say. You know, I'll try I'll try it, even though I don't believe anything's gonna it's all these things. Just just bringing it to life is been it's been is awesome. Uh my wife and I had the the privilege of getting to do a little bit of that in Calvary Downey where we we did there was a guy I can't remember his name. I think his name was Dennis. He used to go around to churches and do sort of a acting ministry kind of a thing. And we we we we did we did some of that with him and that was really cool. But uh I really like it because I think I think you can reach certain people you know we we are we are an entertainment sort of a of a people I mean we you know we're we're constantly it's constantly in in our in our face and we're listening and we're watching and so sometimes you if you tell people all the time read the Bible read the Bible read the well you that your hope is that they're gonna do that. But sometimes it's gonna be more effective to show them something that may lead them to reading the Bible it's like hey I've seen it now I want to see what what the Bible says. And so and what I love about it too is that it's just word for word. I mean not a whole lot of um obviously there's a little bit of creative license because you have to to do transitions and things like that. But for the but for the most part man it's just it's just word my wife turned to me and she's like how does he remember all that's like hey you know it's just part of the it's just part of what he does. It's like yeah you know yeah you you you you memorize it but you internalize it man it's like it's like you you are that character and and it's just really neat and just the transitions between playing all the characters yeah it's very very effective ministry. I think anybody who sees that is gonna be is going to be touched in the heart. I I see it as a very an awesome evangelistic tool as well because because I think all of us all of us go through stuff that Peter went through we may not all be fishermen but we all have a job we all do certain things and and just watching that progress is just was just really cool.

SPEAKER_02 24:46

And so yeah so it wasn't it wasn't just uh an enjoyable thing to watch but it actually was very deep and and it really it did really it really made you meditate and reflect on what you were you were ministered to yeah absolutely absolutely absolutely amen that's well I get ministered to every time I do it too I'm like wow lord this is uh wow this is speaking to my heart and I'm in the middle I'm in the middle of it right now yeah we we got I think two or three two or three people raised their hands at that wow at that conference when I gave the invitation

Music Invitations And Genesis Joe Plans

SPEAKER_02 25:20

and it was you just never know man you know and that's the thing the Lord really put on my heart he was like listen you it's not your job to assume who's saved and who's not that's right you give the invitation you have them make a decision and leave the rest to me and basically that's you know I didn't hear an audible voice but that was what he put don't you basically don't assume who's saved and who's not that's right the Lord doesn't use a lot of words with me man he just keeps don't ass don't assume who's saved and who's not and so I fill in the blank with okay yeah you know all right I'll leave the rest to you but but yeah we I always give the invitation to and I got that you know I really got that from Greg Lurie man given giving the invitation but not just giving the invitation to unbelievers but giving a rededication to believers to double down on their faith and to really get locked back in. And so we have seen a a we've had a great deal of I guess you could call it success uh at at least at the events now the rest is in the Lord's hands the you know the Lord's gonna do what he needs to do the Holy Spirit's gonna work on these people work with them and everything but as far as our job we have been blessed to to see people come to Christ and see people double down and one of the craziest things I ever did at one of these one of the plays I did one of the assistant pastors raised his hand I I was like okay well well all right then wow okay yeah you know and uh I I was like am I was I clear on that you just never know man it's just you just don't know man and it is and it's between them and the Lord and they just you know so yeah I was really glad you were able to see that was the first time Ricky saw it too Ricky saw oh yeah Ricky saw our Christmas Joe play. Okay he saw we went to Jacksonville to do that for him we yeah and they loved it uh over there at at Jacksonville he saw Christmas Joe that's a little different it's about a half an hour of a play and then about 45 minutes of a concert okay cool so we do a Christmas concert with all those old hymns and newer songs and and just praising the Lord but it's all worship praise yeah and so Ricky saw that but he never saw the Pete play and man he he came up to me after he was like man I I was I was I was thinking I needed to pray to be saved after that and I said something something along those lines he was yeah he because he sat right up front with Mark. Yeah yeah I saw that yeah they sat right up front man so that's why I kept working them in into the play or you know but uh yeah so you know what I'll do I'll send you and anybody else that's interested I'll put it in the notes in the show notes the I have a PDF of the Pete play okay that actually it has hyperlinks to all the scriptures how the you know the play was put together and awesome what undergirds it so yeah um uh how about the how about the music man oh the music is amazing like me and you we shared we shared some musical moments when we went to the to the pastor hurl man I was like man I really I like this guy we locked right in for for praise and worship he had his guitar I got on the piano there and I was like all right yeah okay yeah it was great it we we we need to put together a set for next year man and just just take over that'd be great to do that yeah we you know I couldn't really hear I didn't because at Clayton they use in-air monitors and I didn't have any in air monitors so I could yeah I was wondering about that yeah I was like I hope I'm not any uh monitors on the on the stage I I you know I hope I wasn't in the key of oh no no no you were great but yeah man it was you know it was a real blessing to to do that and I just remember seeing you after and you had a had a big smile on your face man you were like oh yeah yeah it was great man we were we were really blessed by it by the whole thing so uh yeah maybe we'll make our way to you yeah yeah because we'll get there we we can we we've done plays in people's living rooms yeah that's amazing so that's something that's something to keep in mind so all right man well is there anything we can keep in prayer this whole this wide worldwide audience because there are people all over the planet right now listening to this anything we can keep in prayer for you just keep our little church in prayer pray that the Lord provides for us and just that we are continue to have the vision that he has given us and to continue to be led the way he calls us to be led you know and and as long as God's leading as long as he's in it that's that's good for me you know amen amen okay and we'll put a link to the church it's Calvary Bible fellowship nc.org and I will put a link in the show notes awesome and people can check out and just so people know we are we are a home church but don't let that don't let that you're gonna that's book of act style man yeah that's book of we're acty we haven't got a building yet we're working on it but don't be afraid to come to a house because everybody here will love you and they'll love on you and give it a shot so amen amen and yeah you you can get the we you can all the messages are up there you guys are going through genesis right now we are yep you guys now listen to this you guys are ahead of us we at Calvary Chapel Southport are going through Genesis we're in chapter 20 this week okay and you're at 37 yeah you're up at 37 but check this out when you finish 30 when you finish get up to 50 when you're finished yeah hey could consider having us come out to do Genesis Joe because there have been different churches that when they finished Genesis they had us come do Genesis Joe and it was like it put okay put it put an exclamation point on their study that's awesome of Genesis and basically Genesis Joe is is from Genesis 37 to 50 it get you know it's basically Joseph telling his story with his music going on. Oh that's awesome I think that I think our church would love that and it and it'll reinforce what you're doing as far as your teaching and going through going through that whole thing.

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So yeah let's let's coordinate that let's start looking at the what do you think you're gonna be tying it up originally I thought it was going to be around the September time frame might be more like October November yeah I've kind of slowed down a little bit because once I got into Joseph yeah I I had to slow it down just a tad because there's a lot there but uh right maybe around September October so we'll we'll kind of look at that and and that's our Genesis Joe season we usually do Pete in the spring and Genesis Joe in the fall so see how God works.

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Yeah we'll be doing uh we'll be in our Genesis Joe season so we'll try to make our way either out to you or near you or something we'll make something happen. That's awesome. Yeah we'll make it happen. Maybe we can rent a spot and just yeah man praise the Lord ask anyone else to come we had some churches get together and you know the people from different churches get together and that's a thing too man we could make an event out of it whatever you want man so yeah that's

Prayer For The Work Ahead

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awesome.

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You know so all right audience you guys can pray that up and we'll keep you posted on this so Bobby Boyd Robbie Boyd my dear brother can you close us in prayer can you close us in prayer all right yeah let's do it uh father we just want to thank you so much for the opportunity Lord to get together as brothers as pastors as friends just to just to talk about what you're doing in our lives and thank you Lord for my brother Freddie as he continues this ministry of putting your word out there but doing it in a different kind of a way Lord uh reaching people differently but still effectively because you are in it so I just lift that up to you Father I thank you for this podcast I pray that it goes out and it reaches those ears that you want it to reach there might be somebody out there right now who's praying about church planting who's got a desire doesn't know where to start Lord help them to reach out you know there's resources out there and and people who are doing it and people who have done it Lord so use this in a mighty way and um just continue to be with my brother and just watch over him watch over his ministry and watch over his family as well thank you for all that you continue to do in our lives we love you Lord we praise you and we thank you in Jesus' name amen amen amen thank you for being on Plays on Word Radio my brother all right man God bless you thank you this program was made possible by the Plays on Word family of supporters to find out more check out our website at playsonword.org