Transformation Church Claims 600 Saved at Infamous Easter Show: Here's Why You Probably Shouldn't Believe it

Shortly after Transformation Church put on their now infamous Easter production, they shared an emoji-filled message on Facebook, revealing that ‘this weekend over 500 people gave their lives to Jesus, and we want to let you know that all of heaven is rejoicing because of your decision.” They later added on another 100 people, bringing their total to 600.

While God can certainly use crooked sticks like pastor Mike Todd to be an instrument of God’s salvation, and we honestly, truly rejoice at everyone who comes to saving faith, we also have no reason to believe that number, given the shady salvation accounting that Transformation is fond of engaging in.

Recall that during a year-in-review posted on Instagram in late 2021 Transformation Church claimed that 46,348 people “gave their lives to Jesus at Transformation Church” that year. In the first three months of 2022 they added another 10,456 salvations, bringing their 15-month total to nearly 57,000 new hearts of flesh.

These were unbelievable numbers, given that the church had only around 5000 members at the end of the year. Despite averaging over 3800 salvations/month for the last two years, they don’t have much to show for it.

In most churches, if someone is brought from darkness to light, they almost always remain at the church they are saved at or attend the church of the person who led them to the Lord.

Not here.

Transformation Church claimed 57,000 salvations in 15 months, which extrapolates to 100,000 in 2021 and 2022. Yet they’ve only grown between 1000-1500 people in the same time, so where are the other 98,000 people going? What happened to them? Where did they disappear to?

It would be like a 100-member church claiming they had 2000 people saved at their church in the last two years but only grew by 20 people. Does it make sense that they get saved at church and never return, or is it more likely that their claimed 100k salvations are wishful thinking?

If so, what does that say about these 600 supposed salvations that happened on Easter weekend?

Pastor Michael Todd leads Transformation Church (TC.) He is known for crowd surfing during his church’s worship service and spending a lot of money. In the last two years, he’s given away $3,500,000 in houses, cash, and cars, spent $65,000 to buy 168 pairs of shoes, gave $600,000 in “reparations,” and purchased $66,000,000 in real estate.

He’s also known for preaching some good old-fashioned Modalism, giving the world perhaps the grossest illustration in church after he snorted and then hocked a loogie full of spit and snot into his hand and rubbed it in another man’s face. He recently had a service where ballet dancers with bare butts danced around the stage and in a recent sermon, offered a muddled, confused, contradictory, and seeming apology for what God’s word says about homosexuality.