Transformation Church Says Controversial Easter Play ‘Ransom’ Is Returning This Year, But Will Not Be Livestreamed
Pastor Michael Todd leads Transformation Church. He is known for crowd surfing during his church’s worship service, 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 (twice,) claiming his church had 75k salvations in the last 18 months even though none of them stuck around, had a service where ballet dancers with bare butts danced around the stage, preached in a shirt featuring his wife in in a bathing suit, claimed that Jesus never reached his potential, and recent trashed a bible on stage.
Last year, he garnered massive criticism after the church put on a controversial high production value, hour-long production of their ‘Ransom’ show, which was viewed 1.3 million times on our feed alone, and which many criticized as a worldly, fleshly presentation of the Easter story by featuring Ke$ha cover songs, women talking about the size of their butts, dancing demons and other strange imagery.
Todd laster insisted that it was God’s idea to put it on, not his, and that he was thankful he can walk in the same level of persecution that Jesus did over being obedient to the Father .
Harkening back to this event, Todd explained in a recent sermon that many people didn’t like it because “it was on the wrong day, at the wrong venue, and it was kind of good,” but that because 600 people got saved after watching it, it’s happening again. This time, however, the church will not livestream it, but hints they may soon take it on the road.
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I just don’t know about using the world to sell Christ. Does saving 600 souls (if indeed these were cases of true salvation and not emotional decisions) justify this kind of frankly somewhat disgusting, worldly production? Maybe?
I wager that half that ‘came forward’ were staff and used to pump up their paltry numbers