Faith in Action: Rick and Bubba
by Sherri Jackson
CBS 42 News
2008-05-12 11:47:52.0
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This story is about two guys who walk the talk of Christianity on the radio. Rick and Bubba are serious about one thing, and that's spreading the gospel in their everyday lives.
Rick Burgess and Bill Bubba Bussey broadcast the Rick and Bubba show in 55 radio markets across the country. Ironically, only one of those stations is considered faith based. Yet these two have been put their faith in action and reached the masses under some tragic circumstances giving God glory and taking Christianity mainstream.
We've laughed with them, and cried with them. The death of two-year-old Bronner Burgess allowed all of us to see the substance that fuels the men behind the Rick and Bubba show. I caught up with the two at a business seminar for students at Samford University.
"So what happened to us on January 19th and those of you who don't know, we lost our youngest son. The way we responded isn't something that we learned on January 19th, it was something we learned and walked years to that point we know we knew what it was," said Rick.
What it was became an opportunity for them to put their faith in action and share the gospel. Rick did it in Bronner's eulogy. It's been viewed by hundreds of thousands of people on Youtube. And each day in some way during the broadcast of the Rick and Bubba show, they do it by example.
“We just had a flood of things going on…just an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. It blows you away, and once you get some of that you don't want to go back," said Bubba.
And they haven't.
“I'll never be the same," said Rick.
Three months later, with people gathered outside their teleport studio, country sensation Kathy Mattea performing in their studio and a new book hitting store shelves, it's clear the entire Rick and Bubba team is well aware of the platform they've been given.
"We're there to entertain, but were only entertaining to share what really matters and that's the gospel,” said Rick.
“It does require sacrifice and we have had some affiliates that fall off because they don't like that," said Bubba.
But that hasn't stopped them from talking about their faith on air.
"We do lose a few, but if we do so be it, we've kind of cast our lot and we're going to stay where we're at," said Bubba.
Sitting in Samfords's Reid Chapel, students heard the humorous yet shrewd business plan that got Rick and Bubba the success they've achieved by man's standards. But in a message fit for a chapel, they also learned how these two are striving to measure up to an even higher standard on the airwaves.
"I want to walk in with Bubba and everybody and Him say I gave you this platform, I blessed you and you never did walk away," said Rick.
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