In the video, you can hear members of the congregation gasping and groaning, to which Todd responded, "How you just reacted is how the people in your life will react when God is doing what it takes for the miracle," the news outlets reported.Īccording to the Tulsa World, the churchgoer was later identified as Todd's brother Brentom.Īfter the initial video received criticism, Todd issued an apology on Monday. To illustrate his point, he spat into his hands and rubbed them on the churchgoer's face. Ironically, before Todd was about to put spit on his brother’s face, he said, “Now this is Jesus ya’ll…don’t let nobody else spit on you, but I’m just saying, like, this is Jesus, like this was a mode of healing people.” Todd also noted that Jesus didn’t embarrass the blind man by spitting on him in front of other people.TULSA, Okla.- The widely-broadcasted pastor of an Oklahoma church, Michael "Mike" Todd, is issuing an apology after a viral video showed him smearing spit on a churchgoer's face during a sermon.Īccording to Scripps sister station KJRH, Todd is the preacher at Transformation Church in Tulsa - which pulls thousands of viewers to their sermons broadcast each week and holds over a million susbscribers on YouTube.Īccording to The Washington Post, Todd was explaining the topic of how "receiving God's vision can be nasty." “What most people would do is turn away.” “This is where most people would not face Jesus any more,” said Todd, as his brother turned away to demonstrate the point. Each time he did this, congregants groaned and exclaimed out loud.
When Todd got to the part about Jesus spitting on the man’s eyes in order to heal him, the pastor noted that spitting on someone “seems to the natural eye as degrading.” It could be, however, that God will put us in a position that seems degrading in order to humble us so that we are ready to receive the miracle he wants to do in our lives.Īs Todd built up to his illustration, he began hocking mucus into his hand, as well as spitting into it. Footage from Sunday shows Michael Todd of Tulsa’s Transformation Church coughing and spitting into his hand, then wiping the spit onto the face of a man next to him on stage. Oklahoma pastor Michael Todd, the pastor of the Transformation Church in Tulsa, is trending online after he rubbed spit into the face of his brother onstage during a sermon. Michael Todd’s sermon points included 1) we need Jesus to touch us as he touched the blind man and 2) God will take us outside of our comfort zones as Jesus took the blind man outside of the village.
The pastor spent about 15 minutes developing various points based on this passage and had his brother, Brentom Todd, come on stage to represent the blind man. An absence of clarity from God will lead to confusion and compromise, he said.Īfter expounding on the need for clear vision from God, Todd turned to the account in Mark 8:22-30 of Jesus healing a blind man, which Jesus does by spitting on his eyes. Michael Todd (iammiketodd) JanuIn case you missed it, Todd, the pastor of the Transformation Church in Tulsa, is trending online after he rubbed spit into the face of his brother. A Tulsa area church leader faced criticism on social media Sunday after a video of the pastor smearing his spit on a mans face during a sermon over the weekend started going. “You should be asking God to touch every area of your life this year,” said the pastor, giving examples that included deciding who to date, a college major, and where to go on vacation. ” The beginning of his sermon focused on the importance of believers submitting themselves to God in order to have a clear vision from him for their lives in the coming year. Their mission is to place Christ in the center. (Twitter) Pastor Michael Todd of the Transformation Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma might have forgotten that there's a pandemic going on currently. Pastor Michael Todd and his wife Natalie, are the Lead Pastors of Transformation Church based in Tulsa, OK. 16 sermon was titled, “ Clearly // The Vision For Invasion // Vision Sunday 2022. Pastor Michael Todd (L) rubs his spit on the face of a congregation member at the Transformation Church in Tulsa, OK on January 16, 2021. Michael Todd and his wife, Natalie, co-pastor Transformation Church in Tulsa, Okla., where they have been lead pastors since 2015. Michael Todd: Receiving Vision Could Be ‘Nasty’ We’re watching abuse and humiliation to boost another’s ego and profile.
Mike Todd even tried to manipulate the crowd into feeling bad over reacting to him dehumanizing a man live on stage. I don’t know who needs to hear this, but this is demonic and manipulative. I don’t know a word for this but it ain’t nice or holy or pastoral or good.” Stewart continued, “This is more than terrible theology or performance or arrogant view’s of one’s self and power.
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