“But I truly understand now why the elders used to frequently tell us that we’re in the last days,” she wrote.īishop Carlton Pearson, who once led one of the largest churches in Tulsa, Oklahoma, during the 1990s and stirred controversy for declaring there is no Hell, came to Todd’s defense. Jemele Hill, a sports journalist, tweeted that she had “never heard of ‘Pastor’ Mike Todd before today.” “I’m legit grieved for the brother who literally was shamed like that in public and I’m grieved for so many who feel they can’t say anything or have to brush it off because it’s Mike Todd,” Stewart wrote. Stewart contends that people have been raising concerns about Todd’s theology for years. I don’t know a word for this but it ain’t nice or holy or pastoral or good.” This is more than terrible theology or performance or arrogant views of one’s self and power. “I legit want to have the energy to talk about this but y’all, I legit can’t. The hocking and rubbing and spitting and deflecting. The spiritual and theological abusiveness. “That Mike Todd video has so many layers of terribleness wrapped up in it, I don’t know even where to start. I Love Everybody ? #REPRESENT /YfzFmySCPe- Michael Todd January 17, 2022Ĭhristian writer and theology student Dante Stewart, who recently authored Shoutin’ In The Fire: An American Epistle, condemned Todd’s actions as spiritually and theologically abusive. I apologize for my example being too extreme and disgusting!
It’s never my intention to distract others from God’s Word and the message of Jesus… even with illustrations! So next time, I’ll rethink and do something differently.” He was bald before I spit on him, and he’s still bald today, so no miracle here. “For my brother, who I love and honor so much, I called him. “When Jesus spit on that man, he was blind and then he could see,” he said. The pastor assured his followers that his brother did not suffer any harm in the demonstration. “There is some truth and some life in there that could potentially change your whole life.” “And yesterday, I crossed the line,” he admitted while encouraging people who have only watched the clip of the spitting demonstration to watch the entire sermon. Todd added that he is sometimes so “passionate” that he tries “to do extreme things to help people get it.” We want people who are desperate to be able to find hope.” “It got too live, and I own that, and I just want to make sure people know that we want to help people. That was a distraction from what I was really trying to do - trying to make the word come alive and make people see the story,” Todd said in his apology video. “I watched it back, and it was disgusting. He hawked loogies from his throat into his hand three times before wiping them over his brother’s eyes in front of the congregation. But Todd’s actions during the service seemed contrary to how Jesus handled the situation with the man in Bethsaida. Todd highlighted how Jesus chose not to spit in the blind man’s face publicly. The tweet was accompanied by a video that was also posted on Instagram and Facebook.ĭuring his message on Sunday, Todd referenced the Bible verse Mark 8:23, which highlights the story of Jesus healing a blind man at Bethsaida by spitting into his eyes privately. “It’s never my intention to distract others from God’s Word and the message of Jesus … even with illustrations! I apologize for my example being too extreme and disgusting!” Todd said in a statement on Twitter Monday afternoon.
Popular Oklahoma Pastor Michael Todd of Transformation Church has apologized to his more than 1.8 million fans across social media after receiving public backlash for wiping globs of spit on the face of a man he has identified as his little brother during his sermon on Sunday. Pastor Michael Todd of Transformation Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, makes a point about vision after lathering the eyes of a congregant with globs of his spit during a sermon on Jan.
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