“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 contends that people have been raising concerns about Todd’s theology for years and expressed concern about the man Todd rubbed spit on during the service. 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. Ain’t no way,” he began in a statement on Twitter. 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. Many onlookers who watched the demonstration from outside the church expressed disgust over Todd’s actions, which triggered a mountain of online memes.Ĭhristian 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. The pastor rubbed his phlegm together and lathered it across the churchgoer’s eyes as the spittle dangled from his face, forcing the parishioner to wipe some of the spittle from his mouth. “What I’m telling you, just as he’s physically standing here knowing what’s coming, God’s saying, ‘Can you physically, spiritually and emotionally be able to stand when getting the vision and receiving it might get nasty,'” Todd said. What most people would do is turn away,” he said, hawking a third loogie, which he spat in his hand. “And this is where most people would not face Jesus anymore. And in this time, He’s changing something. “And this is the moment where many of us are in because God is doing something, and we hear Him changing. “He can’t see, but He can hear,” he said. Then, he hawked a second loogie and told the congregation to watch. He asked the man if he was “good.” Todd then hawked a loogie from his throat and spat it in his hand as an audible cringe erupted from the congregation. The congregant has been identified as Todd’s younger brother. The pastor acts contrary to the wisdom he said Jesus demonstrated and turned the unidentified congregant into a spectacle. Todd asks an unidentified male standing on to the stage next to him with his eyes closed.
tW8XjBK1KB- Jemele Hill January 17, 2022 But I truly understand now why the elders used to frequently tell us that we’re in the last days. Had never heard of “Pastor” Mike Todd before today. “He just didn’t do it in front of everybody ’cause he didn’t want their reputation or His reputation to be tarnished by what he had to go through to receive the miracle.”
… He wasn’t going to not spit on him,” he continued. “So He had to get him outside of what was comfortable. The reason He took him out of the village was because the work that He was about to do, others would misinterpret it.” … You thought when God separated you, it was a punishment, but it was really protection. “He doesn’t embarrass this man ’cause he doesn’t spit on him in front of everybody. “He leads him … watch how good God is,” Todd said. Todd highlighted how Jesus chose wisely not to embarrass the blind man by spitting in his eye publicly. When He had spit on the man’s eyes and put his hands on him, Jesus asked, ‘Do you see anything?'” the Scripture states. “He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. He 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. But now, God’s saying, ‘You can see clearly all the obstacles.'” You were not able to see clearly because of the damage, the frustration, the hurt, the pain, the trauma. “Some of you all have had friends that you didn’t see who they really were. And God said, ‘Michael, the past two years have been like raining over people’s lives.’ And he said they need to prophetically declare that, ‘I can see clearly now that the rain is gone,'” Todd told congregants. Popular Pastor Michael Todd of Transformation Church in Bixby, Oklahoma, drew the wrath of the internet and became a trending topic on Twitter as a clip from his message on vision Sunday showed him wiping globs of spit on a congregant’s face even as the coronavirus pandemic rages.īefore the demonstration, Todd detailed that as he was preparing his message for the sermon this week, God used the words of late singer Johnny Nash’s song “ I Can See Clearly Now” to inspire him.
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